Imo, flashing to a thumbdrive would work fine if your (PC) hardware is compatible with the kernel and modules of the SMX distribution (OS) and your PC is able to boot from USB. At some point some config editing would be required, so the easiest route would be unplugging your system drive, installing a fresh low price SATA SSD (or old hard drive) and install SMX there to try.
Just plug back the windows drive and it will run as usual.

I plan to upgrade to SMX, maybe also the hardware, as i'm a happy SM user on RasPi hardware, as it's possible to control my stuff with the app (on the road) or via RDP (or VNC) directly on the Pi in my home network. No other product is offering this to me.

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