This is not a Ventoy video: ISOs explained + four programs to make Linux boot media

46 thoughts on “This is not a Ventoy video: ISOs explained + four programs to make Linux boot media”

• Me: [literally says "sit down Ventoy bros, the Ventoy video is coming"]
  Ventoy Bros in my comment section: "THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION THAN VENTOY"

  You are just pushing people away from engaging with you, dudes. Cut that out. I actually talk to beginner Linux users, and actually work with them. Maybe you should sit down and listen more.

  EDIT: a bunch of comments have since been deleted, not by me. I don't know what's happening with the Ventoy Bros but my follow-up video about Ventoy is going to be all the more "interesting" (that's a Minnesota term). 😛

  SECOND EDIT: I've retitled the video "This is not a Ventoy video" in the hopes that some of these "enthusiasts" calm down a bit. One can dream, right? At least the tenor of the comments has become a bit more casual now!

• I still remember the excitement when I received the Ubuntu 8.04 CD in the mail.

• Lolz, you look a lot like the "cousin" from Arrested Development. I forgot her name 😂😂😂

• I dont need Balena on a Windows machine….but I want it on my new Mint 22. In Mint 21.3 there was a way to get it in the programms and use it. But that aint possible anymore….If I find the DEB of the latest I cannot install it anyway because there are errors, independicies???

• nice shirt

• On the Mac I do: sudo su time cat mini.iso > /dev/rdisk7

• You are so charming 😄 radiating positivity

• im one of those refugees fleeing microsoft. in the past couple weeks, ive found the best way to get into linux is to:

  – try mint and ubuntu
  – figure out that there's so much bloat that you can't tell where the os ends and the crap begins
  – try arch
  – freak out and panic a little bit
  – end up on debian with minimal kde

  maybe also touch on the IODD drives during the Ventoy episode (if you have one already)?

  also, i found rufus to be a great teaching tool back in the day for how to learn some basics. the defaults are perfectly workable, but the layout of the config options is detailed yet not too crazy. plus the warnings it throws are detailed as hell.

  A+
  gonna keep this around when i get asked this question.

• Rufus my beloved

• wow

• For some reason, I have issues booting media created with Ventoy and Rufus. I just stick to dd and balenaEtcher, and I know how to manually create Windows installation media from Linux and Mac.

• dd all the way! It makes the most sense to me. I have to admit however that I had assumed you could dd an audio CD, thank you for the video!

• And I also agree with putting Ventoy for another video. Its scope goes way beyond booting an ISO from a flashdrive; although is good to know it and it may come handy for some specific situations, it's simply not needed by most.

  PS Too much screaming about Ventoy is giving me reasons to avoid it –just creepy. There seems to be something really broken behind those comments.

• Great video, as always! Keep doing so well 🖤 100% agree with the choices.

• Thanks for sharing. I love your shirt. 👍🏻👍🏻

• Just be warned about the toxicity of mint's 'community maintained' help channels

• "…and I just don't have time to argue on the internet."

  Oh, my sweet summer child…..

  Who would have guessed it wasn't Linux distro that caused the ridiculousness?

• My favorite is LiLi LinuxLive USB Creator.

• As ever so often, when you post something, I've just recently experienced something similar, yet kind of different. 😊 Earlier today I needed to create a Windows boot stick, which would have called for Rufus, but I needed to do it on an Apple Silicon Mac. The weapon of choice was WinDiskWriter. I'm convinced that this bad boy would also have been able to flash regular, non-Windows ISOs. But like Rufus, it's got a couple of advanced use case options.

• I love your shirt, your channel, your sense of humor. Stay golden.

• YOURE a Qt based app…

• "You probably don't have a CD-ROM drive in your computer any more."
  Oi! No trash talking about my computer! It's doing very well for its age and the optical drive works just fine, thank you very much. I just used it to install RCT3. 😂

• Any time I have to make a quick boot USB drive, I go for Balena Etcher. I know there's better/more efficient ways with utilities like dd, but I like how Balena Etcher is like 2 buttons. Great video!

• I use linux for developing (wsl) and in vms, but gaming and some 3d applications seems to stops me from switching

• rufus ftw! If you are going to install windows10/11 (heresy) is a must, as it let you select some options to ignore tpm requirements, bitlocker and for enabling local accounts.

• 6:18 no! don't plug OneDrive in!

• spent the weekend making ethernet cables for my IP cameras, just so I could understand your shirt.

• I've been using Linux since the boxed SuSE days but I'm not a sysadmin and I install a new OS roughly evury blue moon. I still reach for Federa Media Writer when I want to flash an image. I just want my desktop to work without a lot of tweaking or research and tools like dd aren't part of my usual command line work.

  I learned about winget and Pi Imager here. They look like great tools next time I need or want to use those platforms. Thanks for the video!

• What about Yumi multiboot?

• I use Ventoy btw

• Just 5 minutes in and had to comment how brilliant this is. Thank you very much!
  (I literally googled ISO yesterday, and today it makes sense because of your explanation of the history – & I’m old enough to remember it 🤣. Much appreciated)

• The snark and humor in these videos is just really great. Tech is weird and humor makes it bearable / enjoyable.

• Wait does this mean I can throw away the CD/DVD-R spindle I have with unwritten discs? Crap. I was there, 10,000 years ago, with Linux Mandrake installed on my 233 mhz junker.

• Not only is this a very good and well paced tutorial but providing multiple tools to use is such a genius idea when teaching people how stuff works. So often will one tool incidentally not work through no fault of a user and they will simply give up but to have multiple shown examples will hopefully prevent such cases!

• Best software to make a boot media, IMHO, is Ventoy.
  Edit:
  I've used Rufus, Etcher, Fedora MR. And really I'm no Linux expert.
  I just know my way around, been using Linux since 2017.

• Cool video!
  I think one other option should also have been mentioned, that you don't really need to use anything for this. You can simply format the pendrive to FAT32 and copy the ISO contents onto it and simply boot from it from any UEFI equipped system.

• great vid was a bit sad that Pop-Os Popsicle was not featured but still great video for new folxs to linux

• I dd'ed first 100MB of my main drive once trying to write ISO to the flash drive. I don't really know if there was a way to recover files, so I just installed fresh Arch on that drive because I needed that machine the next day and important files were backed up before lol

  So be careful with /dev/sdX

• is that a custom keyboard in bottom left of the video? looks nice.

• Good video (props on the editing, too).
  I wonder if the eye-ess-oh pronunciation of ISO is regional. I've almost always used/heard it as eye-so.

  My problem with Rufus is that it's only ported to Windows. I have no idea why as it is used heavily with GNU/Linux media and Mac OS could benefit from it, as well.

• "[…] you probably don't have a CD-ROM drive in your computer anymore."

  Technically correct, I have a DVD-RW drive. My computer has 5.25" drive bays, and I'm gonna use them dangit!

• Like the shirt as a maker of ethernet cables.

• At 30 years, I finally "understand" what CDROM means and why it was named that way lol.

  As always, great video and I was starting to miss your content. It's been a while. Welcome back to the place where no matter what you do, people will complaint to you for free 😛

  Thank you for the video.

  EDIT: PS, do you use your own setup e-mail service or what do you use? Maybe a video idea for the future? I am paying Proton's basic plan and only because I like the "values" they go for and to not use Outlook (never used Gmail really but I mean, same thing). However, it's become somewhat frustrating using Proton's services as they tend to fall short on "different fronts" depending on what you want do / your needs and depending on the service. And I am a bit annoyed that certain OBVIOUS/Logical features have not been implemented, despite users requesting those and upvoting on their "suggestions/Bugs" tracker.

  So I am open to alternatives, if there are any good ones. But I am not knowledgable in networking or anything like that so that is why I go with "one that has the service" instead of setting up anything on my own, of course.

• Can you do an explainer about using live versions of Linux for newbies? I've sent my 60-something sisters Linux Mint Live on USB and I'm not sure I can explain how to set it up and start it up. This Crowd-Strike F-up has got them thinking it's time to get off of Windows.
  Everybody shows how to burn a USB drive of LM-Live, but nobody talks about setting up a Live system to make it useable. I'd like them to be able to try before they buy, but I can't be there to work through the issues of setting up wireless networks and printer issues (although linux mint does great with both).

• Do a video about Ventoy, it is very good at booting ISO's and most can be installed when booted from it.
  I have at least 5 USB sticks with it at any given time, just copy the ISO to USB and boot from it.
  EDIT:
  i just read your first post, sorry.

• Even though it isn't the simplest program I vote for Rufus. I used Balena Etcher before and it was easy but after writing the ISO it wouldn't boot. Never had any trouble with Rufus and it wasn't hard to learn. Do wish there was a linux version of Rufus though.

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