I'm going to give NixOS a try on a live USB key. If I like it enough I'll probably use it for a new PC build this year and finally switch away from Windows. Finding out how to even make the bootable usb key was a chore but hopefully this solution works

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-create-a-uefi-bootable-usb-stick-of-nixos/19956/8

How to create a uefi bootable usb stick of Nixos?

Since this thread is the number one result on google for how make nixos boot usb Here is the normal people answer Go to Download Nix / NixOS | Nix & NixOS download either Gnome based installer boot ISO or the KDE based one https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-23.05/latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-23.05/latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso Go to rufus’ website Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way download latest rufus https://github.com/pbatard/...

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