diff --git a/content/nixos/nixos-usb-stick.md b/content/nixos/nixos-usb-stick.md
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@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ is quite easy and has some use cases.
 * As a holiday tool
 * For schools
 
+If you don't care about encryption and just want to create a bootable USB stick,
+you are better off [creating an ISO with nixos-generators](https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators) and `dd`.
+
 # Requirements
 
 You need a USB stick with at least 64GB otherwise major updates might get problematic.