Linux on USB Stick for Study puposes

[helgehelge123]

Hey, 

I know you can put Linus on a USB Stick, but I don't know that much else about Linux, I've used mint and ubuntu a few times to save data, but that's it. And I can´t focus on learning while there are 260 games waiting in steam!

My university stuff is in the onedrive and I would like to run Microsoft office, a pdf reader and TeamSpeak on the distribution.

How big should my stick be and what distribution should I use?

I would love some advice and recommendations.

 

Love Helge <3

 

Edit 1: By the way, is Youtube running very slow at the moment? cant even watch 144p content, but speedtests give me 50mbit straight.

Edit 2: I´m using windows 10, maybe something at least partially similar?

[TheAndroidSentByCyberlife]

While you can run Linux on a USB stick it isn't recommended due to some speed issues. You wouldn't be able to run Office on Linux unless it is the web version, a PDF reader should be no problem. On the front of a distro I suggest looking around and experimenting in a VM first, my personal favourite is Linux Mint with Cinnamon.

 

[manikyath]

41 minutes ago, Reallifecat said:

While you can run Linux on a USB stick it isn't recommended due to some speed issues. You wouldn't be able to run Office on Linux unless it is the web version, a PDF reader should be no problem. On the front of a distro I suggest looking around and experimenting in a VM first, my personal favourite is Linux Mint with Cinnamon.

 

linux happily runs off of an SD card, it's not ideal, but it works. beyond that, libreoffice is actually pretty decent.

 

distro wise.. i kinda dislike linux mint, i heard the issues i had with it (mostly being update related) have since been addressed, but i'm digging xubuntu too much for changing my distro of preference in the debian tree once more...

 

EDIT: actually, office 2010 got a platinum rating on winehq, which basicly means "this should run perfectly under wine"

[helgehelge123]

Thanks guys, 

I will try Mint Cinnamon, that looks a lot like windows and I´ve just bought a SanDisk Extreme with up to 250MB/s read and 190MB/s writing speeds, thus speed shouldn´t be a problem.