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Ventoy or liveusb is good for installing something but doesn't seem good idea to actually run long term.
It's not for long term anything at all, it's just running a live distro to poke around.
This is why I asked my second question: what kind of things are you looking to check out or compare? That's helpful in pointing you in the right direction.
If you're unfamiliar, there is literally almost zero difference between distros aside from very tiny customizations and the underlying package management system.
You won't find some distro with massive performance gains for any average task. You also won't find a distro with some optimization that is special that can't also be applied to any other distro.
So if you find something you like about one distro, you just put that on whatever you're running (unless you're talking about package mgmt). Easy Peasy.
Sorry didn't notice second part as soon as I saw ventoy/liveusb. What I'm looking for is very superficial (apart from atomic distro). I'm looking to see if I like using distro. I've exact same packages on my fedora (laptop) and pop os (desktop), I keep thinking I still like pop os (maybe just what I'm used to).
Just to help clarify here: what do you think PopOS is going to give you that Fedora will not?
Maybe just new DE. And I keep having intermittent issues with keyboard in fedora (can absolutely be hardware / firmware issue and I will see it in other distro as well