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Ventoy – Open-Source Alternative to Rufus for Creating Multi-Boot USB Drives (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by Digitalescapetools@sh.itjust.works to c/digitalescapetooks@sh.itjust.works

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Ventoy makes reinstalling operating systems or testing Linux distros much easier.

Install Ventoy once, then simply copy ISO files to your USB drive, no need to reformat it every time you add another image. It also supports multiple operating systems, Secure Boot, persistence, and many rescue tools.

GitHub: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=ventoy

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[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Is this back in Vogue? I used to love this, then something happened security wise, and everyone got out their pitchforks. I still used it, works great.

Glad to see whatever happened has unhappened 🤣

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is open sourceish. There have been some binaries that have unclear provenance that were committed into the source. The creator was working on fixing those issues though.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thats still a problem? Damn that seems like it was years ago that it was raised.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Seems to be. There is also 800 issues open, which suggests they might be drowning a bit.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

I’m an IT guy and this tool is one of the most used I have for installing bare metal. Very useful indeed.

[–] paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Ventoy is fucking awesome!

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's hot!

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why do you need an alternative? Rufus is great.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Rufus is windows only
Rufus still requires formatting the drive every time, and is limited to one OS per drive. An overly reductionist take is that it is basically a fancy wrapper to dd. Ventoy is way more brain-dead to use - format once, just drag and drop multiple isos, and the ventoy menu will let you choose which to iso to boot into.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

with a ventoy usb stick, all you have to do is copy bootable .iso over. that's it. you get a menu at boot to pick one.

it's extremely convenient.

[–] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the main reason I use Ventoy.

I have a small external drive and I just dump multiple ISO files on it and then select whichever one I want at boot, I don't have to keep formatting and making new bootable drives.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can put them all on one USB instead of trying to remember which color thumb drive has which version of which distro... nice.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

the iso don't even all need to be on the same ventoy, either... since you can browse other disks and boot .iso off those, too.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I have a thumbdrive with Ventoy on my desk at this very moment. It's super handy. I keep a live CD type distro on it, and my install media for Nixos and stuff.

[–] FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Amazing! Just when i needed it too

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

it's awesome, but there are a few things that don't boot or boot correctly off one. for those, i just use gnome disks to 'restore' an image, and overwrite a temporary usb when i need to.