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I maked a maymay. I mint fan.
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I have no reason to believe the average person can't manage a usb stick. They're a common way for photos, videos, and records to be sent from one business office to another. I've never worked with anyone who had any particular difficulty using them, and my coworkers weren't all especially intelligent or interested in computers.
Installing an iso from a usb drive and installing an iso after mounting it as a virtual drive seem like they involve roughly the same level of technical skill to me. Booting from cd or usb was a routine school or business activity for decades. Mounting an iso as a drive has been built into Windows for a much shorter period of time. The last time I used Windows, you needed third party software for that. I would bet on a random person off the street to be able to do the first one more reliably than the second. But, more installation options are always better.