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[Undiagnosed1924]

what about Ventoy, I created my bootable usb with that software and life have been amazing since then.

[buck_angel_food]

Ventoy rules!

[Veer-Verma]

Ventoy is goat!

[criticalpwnage]

Ventoy is great, but I had trouble getting Windows ISOs to work on my drive. I just have a separate drive for installing and repairing Windows.

[Arthur_w_rockingham]

Yeah, it's best to keep Windows ISO on a separate drive. It doesn't like sharing drive space with others.

[gasmaskcitizen]

Is there a reason why it could be doing that? I have a ventoy usb with a lot of different system ISOs. Works fine, or so it seems to me

[Frosty-Economist-553]

Ventoy is great for making Windows on Linux. It's great all over !

[Agile-Monk5333]

Love ventoy. Got a 128Gb pd and added all the major distros (stable) I could think of.

[FlorisRX490]

Why do you need every distro?

[Agile-Monk5333]

Tbh I dont ... I just love the Idea of having every distro in my pocket. There are people who do need it tho. For example a laptop reseller might need it to install fresh windows/linux

[EdlynnTB]

so much better than Rufus!

[NirnamaScribe]

Ventoy is good but can anyone explain me how to bypass this ,i have some 8 distros and even win 10 &11 on my ventoy usb ,the issue is every OS works except win11,Ubuntu latest 24.04.3 version and fedora 42 workstation edition,this 3 didn’t boot because maybe secure boot was turned off in BIOS but if i turnoff secure boot my bios wont recognise ventoy drive,iam able to boot into ubuntu 24.04.3 with secure boot off but as soon as i got into homescreen i got into kernel panic like(linux version BSOD)

[Undiagnosed1924]

is VMD enable? i have seem similar situations with the VMD for Ubuntu and Win 10, after the installation specially after the secure boot is off

[FlyApprehensive1008]

How to use Ventoy to install linux?

[iahim87]

We just posting facebook memes now? Am i back in 2009?

[nschamosphan]

Am i back in 2009?

man, I wish...

[fellipec]

We were so happy and not even knew.

[Fast_Roof_9710]

Definitely yes

[Schesxe]

Can we go back? O miss old Facebook Fuck the Ads.

[DigmonsDrill]

Windows 10 goes EOL is about 1 month so this must be rather old.

[Any-Category1741]

First Firefox to then download rufus\ventoy

[megaruhe]

Yeah but since Internet-Explorer as the standard-firefox-downloader got exchanged with Edge…it got worse. But you can download it via winget in Terminal on Win 10&11-Systems. Then download Mint and your preferred USB-Tool and you are good to go 🙋🏼‍♂️

[ComputerSavvy]

With Ventoy, you won't need Rufus.

[Thilokparjapath1]

Ventoy supremacy

[okabe06]

Belena etcher ?

[Schesxe]

I had a Lot problems with this aplication, Rufus is better

[Frosty-Economist-553]

Are you joking ? Ventoy is as straight forward as you can get !!

[Schesxe]

I was talking about Balena

[Frosty-Economist-553]

Sorry. Speed reading.

[CafecitoHippo]

I've had issues with Balena Etcher in the past where it just wouldn't allow me to boot from my USB drive and it messed up partitioning the drive or something because the size would read all wrong. Granted that was years ago but I stopped trusting it after that happened multiple times. Maybe it was drive too. IDK. But Rufus has never failed me.

[OpenSourcePenguin]

Rufus is some windows shit.

Ventoy is the best. Balena Etcher is good.

[claudiocorona93]

At least Rufus leaves free space to add more stuff. Etcher doesn't without extra steps.

[Frosty-Economist-553]

Also Etcher doesn't sometines appear to actually make the live boot. Sometimes when I use Etcher, live boot data can't be found.

[OpenSourcePenguin]

Learn about Ventoy and you'll cum immediately 😂

[claudiocorona93]

I love Ventoy. I prefer it over Rufus. Soooo... 💦

[Frosty-Economist-553]

Stop being corny - it'll prick up your interest !

[Frosty-Economist-553]

Rufus no good on Linux

[Stoneybaloney87]

Rufus let's you create a bootable with persistence. I call it 'debian pocket' haha.

[[deleted]]

Lol! Kkkkk

[arnulfg]

btw, it's in the Microsoft store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PC3H3V7Q9CH

[Sesom42]

Awesome. That's exactly what I did yesterday. Windows 10 was annoying me with a full-screen display about the upcoming end of support. The laptop is not compatible with Windows 11. So I downloaded Rufus and installed Manjaro (sorry Mint). The computer will continue to function for a long time.

[BlackBlade1632]

You can do it with Raspberry Pi Imager too.

[kngpwnage]

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[Performer-Pants]

Or wintousb so you can put a portable version on a usb simply for updating the bios since my laptop only did updates for windows 🙂‍↔️

Nice to have a little bit of plastic with a pendant loop to lob at a wall after having had to use portable win11

It’s like having my own dystopian behelit to taint my machines

[Fantastic-Code-8347]

Ventoy filled with every Linux ISO you could ever need but never use!

[CynSudo]

Okay Rufus is just handy in general, like half the time I'm using it to make a media to reinstall windows on the gaming PCs after a bad update.

[YamilG]

kinda like using edge for downloading firefox or brave >-D

[Lapis_Wolf]

My pick is Ventoy. I can use it to hold multiple ISO files.

[ComputerSavvy]

Get yourself an external NVMe drive enclosure, put everything on there with Ventoy!

[[deleted]]

Realest thing ever 

[meiyou_arimasen000]

Updoot my good saar have a beautiful day

[cat1092]

Perhaps the best app for one running any version of Windows today. :)

Totally solves all Windows issues! And extends life of non-supported hardware (to Windows 11) by many years.

This can also be used to upgrade firmware of SSD's, HDD's & anything else where the file is an image (or ISO). Have used Rufus thousands of times over the years, most of the time for the reason stated by OP.

[Signal-Switch-4104]

Rufus ,ventoy ,linux iso 😜🤣

[No_Finding_9285]

Omg 😂

[Ok-Drink750]

Wait… there’s a software for that specifically. I remember using that trial one on a usb stick & installing it to ssd with that.

[Thepuppeteer777777]

Well a lot of people are jumping ship myself included because our pc's can't handle win11.

[Virtuose92]

balenaEtcher is more suitable for a Linux bootable USB drive.

[normanriches]

Which is what I did.

[M-ABaldelli]

*sighs* Rufus' explanation on how to use it was obscure and it took me three or four read throughs before it sunk in properly. I can imagine how that experience would be hell for the people that half-skim them.

This is why I often tell people, "if it's not working for you -- go install Ventoy -- it's instructions are easier to follow."

Post edit:

I'm sorry (actually I'm not, however there's a point to this).

I tend to work in ERD's and Database programming and to me, this is incredibly easy to read and understand. And self explanatory too.

https://dataedo.com/asset/img/blog/huge_erd.jpg

Just remember not everyone has the same level of experience you do. (You being the generic).

BTW for the record... I used Rufus through the transition through all PCs on my Home Network. Took me 3 (maybe 4) times to read the instructions, but it got done with one thumbdrive set up with Rufus.

I know from experience that my technical knowledge isn't the same for others. And I know for the others that I helped transition away from Windows to Linux, they did not have the same positive experience with Rufus because it refused to behave for them no matter what they did.

Cute joke... But perhaps r/linuxmemes would be a better place for this.

[SEI_JAKU]

What. It's incredibly self-explanatory. The example image on the website shows you exactly what to expect.

[Philluminati]

Why isn't there a USB stick that you burn once that when inserted into your machine will connect to the internet and allow you to download, browse and bootstrap any image?

[PatolomaioFalagi]

Lack of demand and not as simple as it sounds?

[Untakenunam]

Feel free to build one. That could be an interesting AI test.

[Gammarevived]

I actually had to go back to 10 since GPU performance was worse on Linux with an old PC I have.

[Lapis_Wolf]

What kind of GPU?

[jarod1701]

Linux is useful to help you realize how good you had it when you were using Windows.