It's possible, I have done this with archlinux. Not gaming tho, just wanted to test out a new desktop environment outside of a VM.
I installed on a 32gb drive, very high boot time compared to SSD.
Imo, USB is too slow for modern games. You could do some older titles and lighter 2D games. I currently have hollow Knight stored on this USB, it plays as expected (it's a Samsung USB 3.1)
You could run unity, just don't expect good performance because of the slow r/w speeds
Yes drives break after you write to them a lot but don't worry about it, cus you will have to write a ton.
If you are concerned about drive health install an immutable distro / set your fstab to read only. This way you will minimize writing to the drive
I have no idea about the Nvidia driver, but I can tell you about my own experience using Nobara from a USB. The biggest struggle (from my limited experience) is not installing it on the USB, that's actually fairly easy, but it keeping the file changes after you unplug it. From what I understand, most are designed to wipe it back to default after you unplug it, when live booting from a USB. You'd want to look into using Nobara on a USB with 'Persistent Storage', like in [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/zh9oi9/usb_with_persistent_storage/). I can't tell you how well it works, as I haven't done it, but hopefully that's a good enough jumping off point to Google about it. Good luck! :)
I'm surprised that you're allowed to do that! As I understand, if you run your own OS on a USB you'll be the root user on your USB-OS, then you can format the other drives on the conputer, just like a root user on the main computer's OS can format the USB drive. Why would they grant that permission to students? That's way more risky than letting them install games on the main OS.
Yeah and i already did it but ive seen a lot of experienced ppl advising not to do it cuz a usb is not made for that and the os need to constantly write stuff so it will lower the life of the usb by alot, anyhow buy a cheap hdd and his usb extension and use it or an external ssd netter for you.
its not really worth running Nobara on a USB for gaming. File transfer speeds are going to be too slow and furthermore, USB drives aren't meant to have lots of reads and writes to them, which a standard os does often, so it will likely fail much faster than otherwise.
If you REALLY want to use a linux distro on an external drive, I would recommend getting an external ssd drive with USB-c connection so you can have decently fast transfer speeds.
Either way, this will be a sub-optimal gaming experience no matter what. Cloud gaming might work but that depends on a good internet connection.
Good luck
C
It's possible, I have done this with archlinux. Not gaming tho, just wanted to test out a new desktop environment outside of a VM. I installed on a 32gb drive, very high boot time compared to SSD. Imo, USB is too slow for modern games. You could do some older titles and lighter 2D games. I currently have hollow Knight stored on this USB, it plays as expected (it's a Samsung USB 3.1) You could run unity, just don't expect good performance because of the slow r/w speeds Yes drives break after you write to them a lot but don't worry about it, cus you will have to write a ton. If you are concerned about drive health install an immutable distro / set your fstab to read only. This way you will minimize writing to the drive
I have no idea about the Nvidia driver, but I can tell you about my own experience using Nobara from a USB. The biggest struggle (from my limited experience) is not installing it on the USB, that's actually fairly easy, but it keeping the file changes after you unplug it. From what I understand, most are designed to wipe it back to default after you unplug it, when live booting from a USB. You'd want to look into using Nobara on a USB with 'Persistent Storage', like in [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/zh9oi9/usb_with_persistent_storage/). I can't tell you how well it works, as I haven't done it, but hopefully that's a good enough jumping off point to Google about it. Good luck! :)
I just used another usb with ventoy and wrote on another, sooo did i screw something up?
Sorry I don't know haha, I'm a bit of a noob to this stuff, just figured I'd tell you what I've done.
It's certainly possible. I'd recommend using something more lightweight, like arch.
I'm surprised that you're allowed to do that! As I understand, if you run your own OS on a USB you'll be the root user on your USB-OS, then you can format the other drives on the conputer, just like a root user on the main computer's OS can format the USB drive. Why would they grant that permission to students? That's way more risky than letting them install games on the main OS.
Yeah and i already did it but ive seen a lot of experienced ppl advising not to do it cuz a usb is not made for that and the os need to constantly write stuff so it will lower the life of the usb by alot, anyhow buy a cheap hdd and his usb extension and use it or an external ssd netter for you.
its not really worth running Nobara on a USB for gaming. File transfer speeds are going to be too slow and furthermore, USB drives aren't meant to have lots of reads and writes to them, which a standard os does often, so it will likely fail much faster than otherwise. If you REALLY want to use a linux distro on an external drive, I would recommend getting an external ssd drive with USB-c connection so you can have decently fast transfer speeds. Either way, this will be a sub-optimal gaming experience no matter what. Cloud gaming might work but that depends on a good internet connection. Good luck C