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I run LinuxMint MATE on my desktop and have done so for years. If I need a LiveCD/LiveUSB, I just use my LinuxMint USB install stick.

I also have a complete system installed on a 64gig or greater USB stick, as a portable backup system. But I have rarely used it. I say 'stick', but it's a tiny little flat tab thing about 2cm by 1cm by 1mm. (looks a bit like two micro-SD cards stuck end to end.) It lives on the key-ring holding my bank-fobs.

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I suspect that's the best solution: install Linux onto a USB drive. I liked that Knoppix was a curated setup, and that it was on read-only media.

I liked that Knoppix .... was on read-only media.

That's the bit that used to annoy me a lot. Invariably I wanted to add something to the LiveCD, or to transfer a largish amount of data. The read-only aspect of things got in the way.

With a complete 'system on a stick', you can install extra packages if you want, you can even do development at a pinch, mainly bash scripts.

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