Merge pull request #33406 from samueldr/doc/usb-device

Documentation: reword "Obtaining NixOS" paragraph to remove contradiction + update link
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@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ download page</link>. There are a number of installation options. If
you happen to have an optical drive and a spare CD, burning the
image to CD and booting from that is probably the easiest option.
Most people will need to prepare a USB stick to boot from.
Unetbootin is recommended and the process is described in brief below.
Note that systems which use UEFI require some additional manual steps.
If you run into difficulty a number of alternative methods are presented
in the <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick">NixOS
<xref linkend="sec-booting-from-usb"/> describes the preferred method
to prepare a USB stick.
A number of alternative methods are presented in the <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide#Making_the_installation_media">NixOS
Wiki</link>.</para>
<para>As an alternative to installing NixOS yourself, you can get a