Zorin OS Portable Installation - recommended?

Hello,
I am planning to install (yet another) copy of Zorin OS on my new PC. This time, I want to install it on an USB Stick, to be able to boot from Windows to Zorin from different drives. Is it recommended to do that? My PC model is a MS Surface Laptop Go 3 and my Drive a SanDisk with 128 GB of Storage. I have already made it bootable with the Zorin ISO Files. Thank you.

I know people do this, and it is an option to do, but I personally wouldn't recommend it. USB Drives are prone to errors at the best of times, and if one day all of a sudden the drive decides to give up, you've lost your OS and everything related to it on the drive.

I would rather attempt a second drive in the PC before doing that, or even an external SSD / HDD (Ideally SSD) as they at least are not nearly as prone to sudden onset failure. Personally I used to just Dual Boot on a single drive with multiple partitions, but I know a lot of people would rather just have a single drive for each OS.

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But why? I can't install a second drive and the external SSD cost way to much.

If you are talking about using a USB with Persistence then it would be better to have your /home folder on another USB. USB sticks are a micro version of SSD's and continuous rewrites will shorten the life of the USB. Even a small USB HDD would be better than a USB stick.

If usb C required:

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