Just make a live boot drive and try it out! Maybe get a little partition setup. I’ve been running Kubuntu for 3 weeks just fine! I am tech savvy though, but most of the things I needed to be savvy at were only because my PC is also my media server. It was less than 1.5 hours to set up gaming and all my window management options and whatnot. And now everything just works.
I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).
If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).
Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.
Just make a live boot drive and try it out! Maybe get a little partition setup. I’ve been running Kubuntu for 3 weeks just fine! I am tech savvy though, but most of the things I needed to be savvy at were only because my PC is also my media server. It was less than 1.5 hours to set up gaming and all my window management options and whatnot. And now everything just works.
If they want to try gaming though, they might get bottlenecks from running the OS from the USB port. I could be wrong though.
I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).
If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).
Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.