I am actually running Mint with persistence on a 64 gig Samsung BAR USB. From memory there was nothing too hard about it, I think I used Balena Etcher for the burn to the stick. It's fine for a home entertainment system and runs 4k vids like a champion on an 11 year old computer (with a 2017 GPU). To be honest I have gamed off the same model stick using windows 10 LTSC perfectly fine.

I am actually running Mint with persistence on a 64 gig Samsung BAR USB. From memory there was nothing too hard about it, I think I used Balena Etcher for the burn to the stick. It's fine for a home entertainment system and runs 4k vids like a champion on an 11 year old computer. To be honest I have gamed of the same model stick using windows 10 LTSC perfectly fine.