Normally, I always recommend UNetbootin whenever you want to write a bootable ISO image of a Linux distribution to a USB stick. Whether you use UNetbootin’s internal menus to do it or download an ISO elsewhere and use UNetbootin to write the image, it works…
…most of the time.
There are some instances where it will do that “work yet not work” thing. The ISO image will write to the stick, but no matter what you do you absolutely cannot get the stick to boot correctly on reboot of your system. For example, SYSLINUX will start but then just hang there. Forever.
The solution to this is to use the Win32 Disk Imager. Ordinarily this is used for Ubuntu distro ISOs, but you can use it for any distro you want.
Be warned, however: Using it will make a USB stick act “weird” in Windows. See the video below to see exactly what happens so you know what to expect.
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