Is this the best & easiest way to boot from usb?

Is this the best & easiest way to create a bootable usb drive?

Live USB stick - openSUSE

I should follow the Linux instructions and then a create a partition with remaining space on the usb drive.

I’m looking to do this when 11.3 comes out.

My main focus is to create bootable usb drives to stop wasting cd/dvd’s that lay around and pile up; right now we have no recycling center for old cd/dvds without shipping them out by the cost of the consumer. Learning to create a bootable usb opensuse will reduce my waste of old distributions. I ran the Ubuntu usb installer, which graphically does the work for you, so the opensuse looks a little more like work, but manageable for the simple user?

This method works well.
I have had some complications with installs from such though:
See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591169

I moved on to R/RW DVD’s with no problems.