Would I recommend it? Yes — but pack a backup USB, patience, and the phone number of your nearest tech-support friend.
Here’s an interesting, slightly unconventional review of (Windows To Go style, or manually installed): Title: Windows 10 on a USB Stick: Like Borrowing Your Neighbor’s Brain Review by a nomad who refuses to commit to a single PC
— deducting one star because Microsoft hates fun and cheap flash drives will betray you.
Using Windows 10 off a USB feels like driving a rental car that somehow has your own seat settings, phone contacts, and smell. It shouldn’t work this well. But when it does, you feel like a wizard who vaguely understands how electricity works.
IT pros, digital privacy nerds, people with trust issues (cloud sync is surveillance, man), and anyone who’s ever said “I wish I could take my whole PC to a coffee shop without carrying a laptop.”