I recently discovered ventoy and it’s so useful. Don’t have to flash isos anymore and can have a whole iso library. So useful.
If you now find out about iventoy 🙊
Never need a USB Stick anymore 😁
Worth pointing out that while ventoy is open source, iventoy is not. Might be important to some people.
Code is on Github You can download the source there
Wild. That’s very useful.
That site gives me sketchy vibes. Lol maybe because one of the nav items is just named “Document”
Any ideaa why I can’t reach their website?
No idea, it works for me
Weird.
It should look like this
Tried a different browser?
Yes I installed Firefox and that lets me to go that webpage. How weird, everything else works normally on Brave expect that iventoy-page. I’m confused.
Well, now you know. That’s the reason I joined so many communities related to FOSS and Linux to get to know what cooking :)
What’s so useful having about an iso library? Isn’t it just hoarding of outdated images very quickly? What’s even the use case?
I am very curious, because I don’t see it. You usually don’t install so many different machines in any timeframe where it might be useful. For recovery you just pick one and you really don’t need it often either.
You can thin out the obsolete ISOs and have well-used tools like DBAN, a partition editor, Clonezilla, etc. Make some of the ISOs live distributions and you have a way to repair a failed installation.
Being able to repair your or other people’s system. Also, you can store things other than isos, so your device doesn’t lose much utility, it uses a vfat partition.
I ended up with several blank dvds, i had no idea what i would to use them. Then i randomly decided to burn iso images to them for when i distro hop. Any older version i just threw out and replaced with newer version.
When I did supoort I would usually have a number of cds for different tasks. Ubcd, winpe, knoppix , a specialized winpe to restore from synology backups etc.
Some of the modern tools don’t require it. Backups are easier than ever etc.
Ventoy isn’t a new concept. I have a usb drive with a bunch of isos. Just don’t have much use. Because I’ll burn an iso when I need to with Rufus.
Just because almost nobody need to have an iso library.
Yeah, I like having a few isos on Ventoy for live booting from random PCs for troubleshooting. Very convenient being able to have multiple architectures, DEs, versions of distros to boot from on one drive.
The sketch factor on this software is over 9000. I would never run it
It is well established, if niche, software. I think your sketchometer needs calibration.
I’ll take it in for a tune up :P
Why?
I spent an hour last night adding new distros to my Ventoy drive. It’s so much easier than anything else I’ve tried :)
Any chances you will use them?
They’re for me to test. I’ve got an SSD in a USB3.2 enclosure, so the live ISOs run fast enough that there’s no noticeable difference to an installation on my main PC.
I’ve been using Xubuntu on my server for years, and Mint on my laptop for the last few years, and have been trying to switch to Mint on my PC, so I thought it’s about time to try some other distros before I fully commit.
I’ve got all the main distros, so will be distro hopping for a while to see how I get on, and if any of them jump out at me. I’ve always used Debian based distros, so I can see me sticking with one, but I’ve added the others to see if they’ve changed much in the last 20 years, and if I like the way they do things :)