It felt so good man

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
      32·
      3 months ago

      I recently submitted to the Ventoy path, can’t believe it took me so long.

      I actually thought I had messed something up after burning it on a USB. The drive mounted an empty folder and I thought, “no way it’s that simple, I don’t just drop the ISOs into the folder do I?”

      Yes, you just throw all your ISOs into that folder, unmount, and you’re good to go!

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 months ago

        Same here. “Theres a random folder on the USB now but where’s the software to put the ISO in there?”

        Now, having used Linux for a some time, it makes sense why it’s just an empty folder. An ISO is just a file, like anything else.

        • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
          14·
          3 months ago

          And you can even go a step further and configure it so all the ISOs go into a subdirectory. Then you can still use the USB for other stuff without it becoming a mess. Right now I have the following structure:

          ├ apps // Lots of portable apps, using the PortableApps system
├ data // For copying files between devices
├ images // ISOs go here, separated into Linux, Windows and Utilities
├ installs // For apps that need to be installed
├ secure // Encrypted Veracrypt store
└ ventoy // Ventoy config

          All that on a tiny USB on my keychain and super useful when you’re the IT person for the family.

      • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        Can confirm, Ventoy is fantastic! I just keep one 128GB USB drive with a ton of ISOs on it and that does the trick!

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          What do you have on it? I’ve considered setting one up, but I’m not sure what I’d put on it yet, and I don’t want to do the thing where I make something I never use.

          • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            I try to keep all of the distros I’ve tried out, with their current versions and previous versions (if it makes sense), such as:

            • Arch
            • NixOS
            • Fedora
            • Debian
            • Ubuntu
            • Pop!_OS
            • Bazzite (and their friends Aurora & Bluefin)
            • Even Windows 10 >_>

            I’ve stopped distro hopping as much as I used to, but I do keep a much smaller partition around for playing with another distro if I want to (such as the latest test version of Pop that includes the COSMIC epoch alpha release). I’d say that you definitely don’t need a 128GB flash drive, but the last 16GB flash drive I was using pretty much died and when I went to get a new one, the difference between 16/32/64/128 was negligible enough that I just decided to get a 128 one and never deal with storage issues on it again. Plus, you can tell the Ventoy installer to leave some free space for a non-ISO partition to keep other stuff on it as well.

  • Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
    7·
    3 months ago

    Imagine needing a thumb drive to install Linux

    May I introduce my lord and saviour isodrive to you? (TLDR: Allows rooted phones to mount image files, which can be used like a normal usb can)

  • mrvictory1@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 months ago

    Meanwhile I mount the ISO, copy paste its contents to a ~150 GiB FAT32 partition on my HDD I used for backing up PS3 and then modify grub.cfg so GRUB can pass the correct arguments to Linux kernel.