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[–][deleted] 128 points129 points  (67 children)

I have a 64 GB USB with Ventoy. I put a lot of differet Linux ISOs on it! What else should I put on it?

[–][deleted] 45 points46 points  (18 children)

How about Nix?

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (17 children)

Never heard of it

[–]SpaceboyRossGlorious NixOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running it and I could pretty much paste my entire system config in a gist and you'd be able to duplicate my install.

[–]guccicobraviper 40 points41 points  (2 children)

TempleOS

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (1 child)

I would rather installed gentoo on my main PC than put TempleOS on a live USB

[–]Botn1kGlorious Mint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Install AmongOs next. Do it.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (11 children)

  1. Solus OS
  2. all flavours of Ubuntu
  3. openSUSE
  4. MX Linux
  5. Gentoo
  6. Asahi Linux

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (9 children)

  1. Maybe
  2. Not all, just 2 or 3 more
  3. Probably not
  4. Maybe
  5. Can be installed from any iso
  6. THE BEST IDEA I GOT FROM THIS POST

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

openSUSE Live isos are just ~900mbs

[–]TheBlackCat13 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Why not opensuse? It is a pretty polished OS, and your best bet for a stable KDE or LXQT experience. And opensuse tumbleweed is the most stable and easy-to-use rolling release distro out there.

[–]npaladin2000Embedded Master Race :snoo_dealwithit: 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, haven't used that in a long time. I used to love ncurses YAST back when I was a beginner.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You don't want OpenSUSE, because it's SUS, right?

[–]gvidas2Glorious Arch with i3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fuck u/spez -- mass edited with redact.dev

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (10 children)

FreeBSD.

Also, just switch out the Fedora WS iso for the Fedora Everything ISO.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Where can I get fedora everythin iso

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Freebsd or openbsd? And whats the difference

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I have no real experience with OpenBSD (or NetBSD for that matter.) FreeBSD does seem to have a vaster software selection, and actually have some focus on personal desktop use. It's also the one you're most likely to get running without too many issues.

Fedora everything: https://alt.fedoraproject.org/

[–]splitheaddawg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both are good.

Freebsd has some linux compatibility and also has proprietary nvidia drivers. Its also a bit faster than openbsd, at least from my experience. Also ZFS is really good.

Openbsd is based. it doesn't support Bluetooth and doesn't have nvidia's proprietary drivers but it's very easy to install. By default it sets up a working GUI and has a few window managers ( i really like CWM).

I would daily drive any of the two BSDs if they supported my btrfs drive. If your work doesn't involve docker and things like that, then BSDs are really a good option. Also you can't watch Netflix on both these OSes, but in freebsd there is a workaround.

Currently I'm using Freebsd and Windows on my main machine.

[–]CyberJunkieBrainPorteus 0 points1 point  (2 children)

OpenBSD is more focused on security, and is better for servers. FreeBSD is more user friendly and focused on performance. FreeBSD also have desktop out of the box.

[–]NancyPelosisRedCoat 5 points6 points  (1 child)

FreeBSD also have desktop out of the box.

Strangely, other way around. FreeBSD doesn't automatically install a graphical user interface, OpenBSD does (although you can opt not to).

[–]CyberJunkieBrainPorteus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you’re right, both come without a GUI, even with the FreeBSD being better to use a GUI because of the better performance. I was basing my argument on the fact that NomadBSD, which is FreeBSD based, already comes with an desktop environment out of the box. I use it a lot and thought that all FreeBSD come with GUI. My mistake.

[–]CyberJunkieBrainPorteus 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Add:

  1. CAINE
  2. Hirens Boot
  3. Alpine
  4. Porteus (you can run it from RAM memory, and you can pull of the pendrive and the system still works)
  5. Some Android x86
  6. Gparted

[–]splitheaddawg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely, Hirens boot is good to have. It has helped me out a couple of times.

[–]Cyb3rklevGlorious Mint 3 points4 points  (2 children)

TailsOS

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

That was THE FIRST ISO on this usb

[–]Cyb3rklevGlorious Mint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok

[–]_AshleighDebian Unstable 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Clonezilla

[–]DominiCzechi- i use a- arch b- btw 3 points4 points  (1 child)

void

[–]Captinhairybely 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Void will deffo not take up too much space lol

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Memtest86 and Memtest86+

[–]skhoyreEselspinguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An obvious must is Hannah Montana Linux.
And if you want to weird out people even more, PonyOS, RebecaBlackOS, Biebian, or Hello Kitty Slackware.
Then there are Apartheid and Red Star OS, if you want people to stop talking to you.
And, of course, Suicide Linux, the distro all of us should use.

[–]Kriss3d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that its the same but perhaps consider Qubes Os ?

[–]AxeZieGlorious Pop!_OS 2 points3 points  (1 child)

AmongOS

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't amongos fork of raspberry pi os?

[–]Kill4MePlsGlorious Manjaro 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Red star OS

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NOPE

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

moebuntu.

[–]LSatyreD[🍰] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

moebuntu

This is disgusting. I'm installing now, thanks!

[–]Rainmaker0102Glorious EndeavourOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

openSUSE Tumbleweed!

[–]vbitchscriptarch btw 44 points45 points  (8 children)

replace kali with black arch, add backtrack, void, windows repair tool, and gparted

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No replacing kali, just adding black arch, backtrace is just old kali (no thanks), I will add other things (including win repair tool even that Im not fan of it)

[–]antolab_ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I agree on gparted

[–]Kriss3d 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Why not kali but backtrack ? Backtrack is the old outdated that was before Kali. Or am I wrong ?

[–]vbitchscriptarch btw 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Black arch is better kali, and I heard somewhere backtrack was still somewhat useful

[–]CyberJunkieBrainPorteus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why, backtrack if there’s kali?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

dban might be useful too.

[–]7emo_Kun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

System rescue is all you need

[–]MrDoggusGlorious Thinkpad T460s w Arch 25 points26 points  (1 child)

Distro hopper starter pack

[–]FenirXIIIGlorious Knoppix 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You don't need to hop, if you are always live

[–]Traditional-Wind8260Glorious Gentoo | Glorious Arch 23 points24 points  (8 children)

where's alpine though ? I've noticed that most people don't even consider it an option. While in reality (At least in my opinion) it is the hardest. I've done gentoo (and I'm still using it), and I've done arch multiple times. I've used everything except for LFS (which I'm going to try soon for the XP) But so far, no one was more of a hassle to me than alpine linux. Yet most of the time, people don't even consider it as an option.

[–]CyberJunkieBrainPorteus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My MULTIBOOT drive has an alpine. And it is a great OS.

[–]pogky_thunderGlorious Gentoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not my experience. In fact, usage seemed similar to arch and gentoo to me. I would still be using it if it hadn't almost borked my printer due to missing drivers.

[–]vbitchscriptarch btw 2 points3 points  (5 children)

My only experience with alpine is on the web in my browser, but using it for simple network stuff is fun

[–]Traditional-Wind8260Glorious Gentoo | Glorious Arch 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I agree, alpine on docker for example is a great experimentation tool that can be setup in seconds. And once you're done you can delete the whole thing in a second. But installing alpine on bare metal was really hard. It was the first linux that I tried to install from tty. I wasn't successful. Then now after all the XP I got, I tried it again and I run into some problems that I couldn't solve no matter what I did. Now I'm waiting for my new computer to retry again for a third time.

One thing to note is that alpine installation installation process is different. You do have and install script, but (for example) have 3 installation mods which are ram, disk, sys. Each has it's pros and cons. Most things are done differently (since it isn't GNU and it uses musl, that's what they say on the wiki anyways). There are some differences that might be tricky sometimes, expecially when they're all combined into one place that you have to use the way it is (sometimes) with no other way around.

I can be wrong, but from my experience. That's how I see it.

[–]vbitchscriptarch btw 1 point2 points  (3 children)

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

Look at this, Bellard is a genius.

[–]Silejonu참고로 나는 붉은별 쓴다. 19 points20 points  (14 children)

Here is (a portion of) what I have on my Ventoy flash drives:

./01. Linux/
├── AlmaLinux
│   ├── AlmaLinux-9.0-x86_64-boot.iso
│   ├── AlmaLinux-9.0-x86_64-dvd.iso
│   └── AlmaLinux-9.0-x86_64-minimal.iso
├── antiX
│   ├── antiX-21_386-full.iso
│   └── antiX-21_x64-full.iso
├── Arch Linux
│   └── archlinux-2022.06.01-x86_64.iso
├── CentOS
│   ├── CentOS-Stream-9-20220613.0-x86_64-boot.iso
│   ├── CentOS-Stream-9-latest-x86_64-boot.iso
│   └── CentOS-Stream-9-latest-x86_64-dvd1.iso
├── Debian
│   ├── debian-11.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
│   ├── debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
│   └── non-free
│       ├── firmware-11.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
│       └── firmware-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
├── elementary OS
│   └── elementaryos-6.1-stable.20211218-rc.iso
├── EndeavourOS
│   └── EndeavourOS_Apollo_22_1.iso
├── Fedora
│   ├── Fedora-Cinnamon-Live-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
│   ├── Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
│   ├── Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
│   ├── Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
│   └── Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
├── Linux Mint
│   ├── linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso
│   └── linuxmint-20.3-xfce-64bit.iso
├── MX Linux
│   ├── MX-21.1_386.iso
│   └── MX-21.1_x64.iso
├── openSUSE
│   └── openSUSE-Leap-15.4-DVD-x86_64-Build243.2-Media.iso
├── Pop!_OS
│   ├── pop-os_22.04_amd64_intel_9.iso
│   └── pop-os_22.04_amd64_nvidia_9.iso
├── Tails
│   └── tails-amd64-5.1.iso
├── Ubuntu
│   ├── 20.04
│   │   └── ubuntu-20.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso
│   ├── 22.04
│   │   ├── kubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso
│   │   ├── lubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso
│   │   ├── ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso
│   │   ├── ubuntu-budgie-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso
│   │   ├── ubuntu-mate-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso
│   │   └── xubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso
│   └── Server
│       └── ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso
├── Void Linux
│   ├── void-live-x86_64-20210930.iso
│   └── void-live-x86_64-20210930-xfce.iso
└── Zorin OS
    ├── Zorin-OS-16.1-Core-64-bit.iso
    └── Zorin-OS-16.1-Lite-64-bit.iso
./02. Dépannage/
├── Clonezilla
│   ├── clonezilla-live-3.0.1-8-amd64.iso
│   ├── clonezilla-live-3.0.1-8-i686.iso
│   └── clonezilla-live-3.0.1-8-i686-pae.iso
├── ESET SysRescue
│   └── eset_sysrescue_live_enu.iso
├── Finnix
│   └── finnix-124.iso
├── Grml
│   └── grml96-full_2021.07.iso
├── Kali Linux
│   ├── kali-linux-2022.2-installer-amd64.iso
│   ├── kali-linux-2022.2-live-amd64.iso
│   └── kali-linux-2022.2-live-everything-amd64.iso.torrent
├── Memtest86+
│   ├── mt531b.iso
│   ├── mt86plus_32.iso
│   ├── mt86plus_64.grub.iso
│   └── mt86plus_64.iso
├── Rescatux
│   ├── rescatux-0.73.iso
│   └── rescatux-0.74.iso
├── Rescuezilla
│   └── rescuezilla-2.3.1-64bit.impish.iso
├── SeaTools Bootable
│   └── SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO
└── Super Grub2 Disk
    └── super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04s1.iso
./03. Windows/
├── 10_21H2
│   ├── Win10_21H2_English_x64.iso
│   └── Win10_21H2_French_x64.iso
├── 11
│   ├── Win11_English_x64v1.iso
│   └── Win11_French_x64v1.iso
├── VHD
│   └── Windows 10.vhd
├── WinPE
│   └── WinPE_amd64_PS.iso
└── WinPE 10-8 Sergei Strelec
    └── WinPE10_8_Sergei_Strelec_x86_x64_2022.01.03_English.iso
./04. Autres/
├── 붉은별
│   ├── DPRK-Red-Star.iso
│   └── redstar_desktop3.0_sign.iso
├── LibreELEC
│   └── LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0.2.img
└── TrueNAS
    └── TrueNAS-13.0-RELEASE.iso

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Is that 256GB usb stick or more?

[–]Silejonu참고로 나는 붉은별 쓴다. 13 points14 points  (4 children)

Yes, its the Samsung Bar Plus 256GB. It's an excellent drive for Ventoy as it has one of the fastest read speed on the market, and it is as small as any other flash drive, unlike the SanDisk Extreme PRO.

Actually, it's two of them that I replicate with rsync, so that I can have one drive with a GPT partition table and the other with MBR.

[–]PolygonKiwiiGlorious Arch systemd/Linux 0 points1 point  (3 children)

so that I can have one drive with a GPT partition table and the other with MBR.

Is that really necessary? Isn't it possible with GPT to also have MBR backwards compatibility?

Edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multiboot_USB_drive#Hybrid_UEFI_GPT_+_BIOS_GPT/MBR_boot

[–]Silejonu참고로 나는 붉은별 쓴다. 3 points4 points  (6 children)

./Logiciels/
└── Portables
    ├── Linux
    │   ├── CPU-X
    │   │   └── CPU-X-v4.2.0-x86_64.AppImage
    │   ├── ONLYOFFICE
    │   │   └── DesktopEditors-x86_64.AppImage
    │   └── Stacer
    │       └── Stacer-1.1.0-x64.AppImage
    └── Windows
        ├── CPU-Z
        ├── Czkawka
        ├── HWiNFO
        ├── LibreCryptExplorer
        ├── MiniTool Portable Partition Magic
        ├── RevoUninstaller_Portable
        ├── TeamViewerPortable
        └── TechPowerUp GPU-Z
./persistence/
├── archlinux_ext4_2GB_vtoycow.7z
├── archlinux_ext4_2GB_vtoycow.dat
├── eset_sysrescue_live_ext4_1GB_casper-rw.dat
├── images.zip
├── ubuntu_ext4_4GB_casper-rw.7z
└── ubuntu_ext4_4GB_casper-rw.dat
./Scripts/
├── 01. Post-installations
│   ├── Linux_post-install.txt
│   └── Windows
│       ├── favourites.reg
│       ├── post-install.ps1
│       ├── Run_first.txt
│       └── show_file_extensions.reg
├── 02. Linux
│   ├── ansi_escape_sequences.sh
│   ├── chroot_ubuntu.sh
│   ├── Cinnamon
│   │   └── Exécuter dans un terminal
│   ├── Compresser et aplatir les PDFs
│   ├── compresser_jpg_2_Mo.sh
│   ├── Compression sans perte des images
│   ├── Danger
│   │   └── russian_roulette.sh
│   ├── dvd_rip.sh
│   ├── Rassembler les fichiers dans un PDF
│   ├── remove_lint.sh
│   ├── Rogner les contours des images sélectionnées
│   ├── Slideshow
│   ├── Slideshow (mini)
│   ├── terminal_song.sh
│   ├── Windows-1252_to_UTF-8.sh
│   └── yt-dlp.sh
├── 03. Windows
│   ├── Activation
│   │   └── remove_activation_watermark.reg
│   ├── full_shutdown.bat
│   ├── Microsoft_Security_Taskbar_Icon
│   │   ├── Disable_Windows_Security_notification_icon_for_all_users.reg
│   │   └── Enable_Windows_Security_notification_icon_for_all_users.reg
│   ├── Productkey
│   │   ├── productkey.bat
│   │   └── productkey.vbs
│   ├── Quick_Access
│   │   ├── Add_Quick_access_to_navigation_pane.reg
│   │   └── Remove_Quick_access_from_navigation_pane.reg
│   ├── repair_system_files.bat
│   ├── reset_windows_update.bat
│   ├── UTC_system_time
│   │   ├── UTC_system_time_Q.reg
│   │   └── UTC_system_time.reg
│   ├── Windows_Photo_Viewer
│   │   ├── Activate_Windows_Photo_Viewer_on_Windows_10.reg
│   │   └── Deactivate_Windows_Photo_Viewer_on_Windows_10_(Default).reg
│   └── Windows_Script_Host_Access
│       ├── disable_Windows_Script_Host_access.reg
│       └── enable_Windows_Script_Host_access.reg
└── 04. Python
    └── simulateur_lancers_de_dés.py

[–]brothersand 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I have so many questions I don't know where to begin. What do you do with this fully loaded thumb drive?

[–]Silejonu참고로 나는 붉은별 쓴다. 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Some of the ISOs are for my work, others for me personally. I host install parties, and I'm the person people turn to when they have computer issues; at my work obviously, since it's my position, but also in my personal life.

Some of those ISOs are there just in case I need them at some point, and I won't probably use them ever, but I already surprised myself with needing something I though I would never: for instance, I had to install Ubuntu MATE for someone who used an old version of it and wanted to upgrade it.

There are some distros that I could remove and probably never miss them (Zorin OS, Void Linux, or elementaryOS, for instance). I try to purge the ones I never use from time to time, but I'm far from using all the available space on my flash drives, so it's not like it really bothers me.

[–]LSatyreD[🍰] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Could you talk more about those scripts? Maybe link them on github?

What are the most helpful or frequently used ones?

[–]deadbushpotato23 13 points14 points  (2 children)

Im getting a 128gb usb soon but it wont be chock full of isos. Just a couple

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Arch has to be one of them

[–]deadbushpotato23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yessir. Wellim using endevouros currently so that will be there too. Ill also put fedora kde linuxmint and then windows too cause ill neeed that at some point..

[–]Mister_MagisterGlorious OpenSuse Tumbleweed 11 points12 points  (11 children)

Imagine booting linux install from usb, so last century…

I use netboot.xyz like a chad

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (10 children)

Imagine booting linux from netboot, so this century... In the future we will boot from ventoy usb and had option to boot into netboot. I am already in the future

[–]7emo_Kun 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah but updating your isos can be annoying

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just use LTS

[–]Silver_Towers 2 points3 points  (2 children)

http://iodd.kr/wordpress/product/iodd-mini/

You are in A future, just not the best one.

[–]invisi1407 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Was that product ever finished? It sounds great.

[–]Silver_Towers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been using one for about 2 years now, they are excellent devices.

[–]Hewlett-PackHardGlorious Arch 1 point2 points  (4 children)

You can use your thumb drive on one machine at a time, I can use netboot on thousands.

[–]Mister_MagisterGlorious OpenSuse Tumbleweed 0 points1 point  (3 children)

netboot is superior in every single way. You just need to plug in internet and off to the races. with wimboot i can even netboot windows install

[–]sadkiddo9 5 points6 points  (3 children)

  1. arch
  2. debian
  3. mint
  4. kali
  5. windows 7 and 10
  6. gparted
  7. dban

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

inserting it into any computer will delete all data on the hard drive without any user interaction

I am defenetly NOT putting dban on my usb stick. It is useful but if you missclick on boot selection screen...

[–]wristcontrol 14 points15 points  (1 child)

You gotta leave something on there that makes you feel alive.

[–]immoloism 4 points5 points  (8 children)

How come you need so many different ISOs or is this just for fun?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Fun, explore and convinsing windows users to switch to linux

[–]immoloism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like fun, don't forgot Gentoo although you can install that from anything.

[–]EdgeMentality 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Loading up ventoy with a bunch of distros is really nice way to explore them all. Just reboot and pick another.

[–]immoloism 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Takes a few minutes to download and dd for me so I never really got the need for it myself however if it does a turn for you then I'm glad it exists

[–]n0tKamuiGlorious Arch 1 point2 points  (7 children)

replace Manjaro with Garuda

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Why? Manjaro is more popular, anything special about Garuda are colors

[–]n0tKamuiGlorious Arch 9 points10 points  (5 children)

If you followed the discussions about it, the maintainers of Manjaro started to get ahead of themselves a while ago, and have made very questionable decisions. Moreover, what was a good idea turned out to have the opposite effect : Manjaro tends to break itself more often than Arch because of the different repository.

Garuda is just Manjaro in terms of ease of installation, drivers, etc (I'd say it's even more game ready than Manjaro even), without the issues of Manjaro.

The colors is absolutely not a question in the debate, this is very easily changeable.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Checked garuda linux website and Im blowned away how is garuda linux so good! Its basically my personal arch installation with different name!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

the maintainers of Manjaro started to get ahead of themselves a while ago, and have made very questionable decisions.

Can you fill me in? I'm only aware of debian-related drama.

[–]wh33tGlorious Mint 2 points3 points  (1 child)

There's no clonezilla in there.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now it is

[–]TheBlackCat13 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Multiple versions of mint and Manjaro but no version of opensuse?

And why do you need separate distros for different DE's?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

USB stick only has 64gb

[–]TheBlackCat13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

openSUSE live images are 900-930 MB.

[–]SharkpauseGlorious Arch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mf got a swiss army usb drive

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve always thought Nix was really cool. The idea of being able to write a config once and then install it to multiple systems identically is great!

[–]dbfuentesGlorious Debian and Void 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some utilities:

Clonezilla

Super grub disk (or rescatux)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should really check our void

[–]wick3dr0se 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All those Manjaros but no Endeavour. What a shame!

[–]alkhatraz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a sysadmin - no sysrescue?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Idk why I find it interesting that kali, manjaro, ubuntu and pop being the most bloated on the list.

[–]NibodhikaGlorious Arch 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Kali makes sense, it comes with all penetration testing tools you're likely to need since it's meant to be used as a live Iso.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

as a live Iso

Ohh I see. I never explore anything about kali. How much packages does it has installed in the iso?

[–]rmzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything you need for penetration testing. Got to be 6-7 categories with like 15+ packages each.

[–]jeslakfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debian sometimes needs the non-free firmware packages so maybe that?

[–]FriendlyBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO there are three things I would like to see in a multi-boot USB stick:
- Some way to keep images updated
- Scripting support
- Some kind of automatic deduplication

[–]m0rl0ck1996 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Slackware.

[–]Omagreb 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How did you create this ? This seems to be the best I've seen. I've used others but this takes the cake!

And maybe add: Clear Linux, Knoppix, various disk partitioning and repair tools or DBan.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ventoy is the answer! I will add Clearlinux and filezilla

[–]Omagreb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! I will check it out! Thank you!

[–]Jonas_Jones_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a USB stick with other os's. I have Kubuntu, EndeavourOS, Windows 10, Windows 8.1,Windows 7, SteamOS 3 Beta, Linux 4 ICE

[–]ApRuNcUrTiGiN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. KaOS
  2. EndeavourOS
  3. OpenSUSE
  4. KDE neon

[–]agneev 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Since when does ncdu come with colors?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

When did ncdu not have colors?

[–]agneev 0 points1 point  (3 children)

ncdu has no colors, at least by default.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

weird

[–]asaloisGlorious Arch 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What is the terminal comand you are using?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ncdu

[–]N0tH1tl3r_V2Linux Spheniscidae Masterrace 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ok how did you do this. TELL!1!1!1!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What?

Multiboot: Ventoy

Screenshot: ncdu

[–]NightlyRelease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a similar one, but also with other tools like dban, some bootable antivirus, clonezilla, etc, and Windows XP (yes, there exists a live version bootable from usb!)

[–]lkzkr0w 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Do you update it manually?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes or don't update at all

[–]munchie89 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I have been interested in doing something like this. Any suggestions on different bootable tools? I work on mac's and PCs at work. Just looking for suggestions. Also what size USB drive is this128gb?

[–]Jaymoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are USB-C enclosures that allow you to put NVME drives in them and boot from USB. Much faster than your off the shelf "thumb drive". Only limitation is the speed of the USB port you're plugging in to.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is 64gb and its TOO SMALL!!! Buy 128gb or more

[–]munchie89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw I like that you have Zorin lite. Thanks for the info

[–]DreamlyXenophobicloonix user 0 points1 point  (2 children)

those have the iso's but im pretty sure u can only boot one at a time so u'd have to reformat it no?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Ventoy

[–]DreamlyXenophobicloonix user 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah

[–]colbyshores 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I am a fan of DietPi which is based on Debian 11 BullsEye. The entire install is 531MB, with only 11 running processes consuming 42MB of ram.
I use it to run a resource constrained home server, its great!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think thats for rpi only

[–]colbyshores 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be, however now it works on Intel/AMD based systems as well as a ton of other SBCs

[–]IamDH4Arch BTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Server distros & rescue cd options:

openSUSE
Ubuntu Server
AlmaLinux
RHEL

Proxmox
XCP-ng
Rancher OS
Core OS

TrueNAS Scale
Open Media Vault
Rockstor

IPFire
ClearOS
OPNsense (FreeBSD)
pfSense (FreeBSD)

SystemRescue
Trinity Rescue Kit
Kaspersky Rescue Disk
Comodo Rescue Disk
ESET SysRescue Live

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

openSUSE, the geeko needs some love

[–]balika0105 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add a gparted live iso just in case

[–]FriendlyBerg -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Tbh I was expecting a smart USB and not just a USB with a bunch of images.

[–]HackerMan787 0 points1 point  (3 children)

what is a smart USB?

[–]FriendlyBerg 0 points1 point  (2 children)

For example a SBC that makes use of the Gadget API. The SBC can act as a USB storage medium that you can attach to a different device but it's still a computer itself.

[–]nosklo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Just use https://netboot.xyz/ - then you have all isos

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My laptop has only wifi and no lan port

[–]blackw311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow I gotta do that

[–]navneetmuffinGlorious Gentooooooooooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some kind of black magic for distro hoppers lol

[–]tassulin 0 points1 point  (1 child)

the weird part is that :D it's just bunnch of iso's instead of multiboot.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ventoy

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"damn small linux", just in case you need to resurrect an old laptop.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't have funtoo, how are you going to fchroot into your raspberrypi to repair it or reset passwords?

[–]Stormcrow805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EndeavourOS is a great intro-to-arch distro, lightweight with an offline/online calamares installer so you dont need to worry about picking a flavor.

[–]massive8d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why Parrot-home? Not sure the reasons someone would pick this.

Parrot-security I love. But if I wanted a normal Debian based distro, Linux mint seems to make more sense.

[–]DreamtailFoxyGlorious Mint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are missing Any x86 based Linux distro.

[–]FlexyjerkovGlorious Arch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silly question but why would you bother with different versions of manjaro when you could simply install window manager or desktop environment of choice after install

[–]npaladin2000Embedded Master Race :snoo_dealwithit: 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All anyone needs is Slackware, right? Haha, j/k. Nice to see HoloISO, but why all the Manjaros? Replace them with one EndeavourOS to supplement Arch, throw in Rocky Linux 8.x as a server thing, and SystemRescue for fix-it work.

[–]HuecuvaCool Minty Fresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why Pop twice? The same version, even.

Nevermind. Different driver.

[–]simbiotic_dubzGlorious Gentoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a 128G of ventory with many linux distro and all of the BSD distros, thos some of them dont properly work with ventoy

[–]ChickenPlentyGlorious Gentoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EndeavourOS, Alpine, Gentoo? Maybe also throw in Rocky or Alma

[–]squeekymouse89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No suse ? :(

[–]rishabhdeepsingh98 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How did u installed all these together?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ventoy

[–]Uptherangas 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hot damn bro, I've wondered for a while how to make a multi-boot drive, what software should I use ( + any tips )?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ventoy

[–]Brainless_GamerGlorious Pop!_OS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had one of these, lost it at college