What is the preferred way to make a bootable USB drive on Linux these days? I want to try a couple of distros on my very old mother’s PC before installing. When I googled it, I only found ways to do it in Windows. Perhaps my Google-fu is off? So I thought: why not ask Lemmy?
Use ventoy
It will format your USB drive so as you only have to copy your ISO files to the drive, boot from USB and select which distro you’d like testing. That way no need to format your drive each time you wanna test a new distro.
Note : for some reason, it will NOT boot NixOS. But apart from that it boots fine : ZorinOS, Pop!_OS, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, Endeavour OS, openSuSE, emmabuntus and Debian (that I tested). It should boot any other distro just fine.