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Making a Bootable USB Drive with the dd Command

sudo dd if=iso of=drive
lsblk for drive name (probably sdb)
example

sudo dd if=Downloads/nixos-gnome-22.11.3994.x86_64-linux.iso of=/dev/sdb

Restore USB drive after making it bootable

erase all partitions on usb drive with fdisk
create a new partition that takes up the whole drive with fdisk
create fat32 filesystem on partition (sdb1 is usually the partition but make sure it is the right one with lsblk)

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb1