Question. Can we create a partitions or something to load iso and one for regular file storage. I have 128 gigs usb and I don't want to use it only as live load os stick.
@@vidhyachan6494 just make a folder with the name of "ventoyignore" and put your other stuff in there, and ventoy will ignore that folder and it's content
@@AcidiFy574 Not really sure what this means, but if you mean keeping the ISOs permanently on your USB flash drive, then yes, you can just copy them into it and leave them on a folder on your USB flash drive & pick whichever you want. The ISOs won't go anywhere, unless you re-format your flash drive.
i've had mixed success when it comes to my Ventoy stick being detected by the machine but this project is no doubt going to be the future of OS installs for 99% of builders
For me whenever I booted a Windows iso from Ventoy, it worked, but corrupted the Ventoy partition so it did not work again untill reformating. Using LinuxISOs though worked without a problem for me.
@@PatrikKronThat is a very weird issue, probably related to your hardware (I'm guessing motherboard or faulty RAM) or USB drive, since I was able to boot WinPE and install Windows just fine.
Yes, Ventoy saved me big time, with its Secure Boot support. I had to reset a laptop to factory default with Windows from Linux. It required secure boot. Only Ventoy managed to create a valid Windows Boot Disk with Secure Boot enabled!
I just turn Secure Boot off. If I purchased a machine that didn't allow me to disable Secure Boot, then I would return it and get my money back. I won't use Microsoft-originated "features" that only exist to try to lock out non-Windows operating systems.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I had to reset the notebook to factory default to return it to the shop so I wanted it to be as I got it. ;-) By the way, Secure Boot is now easily supported on Linux. You can provide your own key, if you like.
Secure Boot is "nice to have" (and I have it enabled with my own PK, KEK and db/dbx), however, for an Install from a Thumb-Stick that I do trust, I generally turn it off in UEFI for the moment.
Wish I had known about this last night. I was having a hell of a time trying to format Windows 10 install media under Linux - I've never done it before and it proved slightly more tricky than I anticipated. Now you're telling me I can just use Ventoy and keep a whole mess of images on one USB stick. Dude, this changes everything!
Linux Mint will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was my first distro I ever used. I often wish I could recapture the excitement and wonder I felt the first time I used a desktop OS that wasn't Windows.
Every time I turn on a computer without Windows on it, there is absolute joy in my heart. Fortuanately, I have no Windows 8 or 10 at home (just a few VMs up to XP) and I use and support Linux at work. So every day for me is a good day, and I laugh heartily at people who have to endure their Microsoft abuser.
I'm going to QEMU VM my current Win7 and run it from a Linux Mint (or possibly Manjaro), probably next week. Since I'm mainly a gamer, I have to keep Windows for some stubborn games, but hope to port over most of the currently 200+ I have installed over to Linux. It'll be quite the task, but I'm hopeful Wine and Proton will get the job done. Looking forward to that fresh Linux feeling - hopefully my experience will be as good as yours apparently was.
Even if you wouldnt need multiple ISO's, it seems this would be a great way to simplify setting up a USB stick for installing a new os, since it's drag and drop.
I’ve been watching your videos every day for the past week and I enjoy listening to you just talking about stuff. You are very well-spoken and you talk about stuff I rarely see videos about.
Ventoy is amazing. An absolute must. You can keep your most important ISOs on there. I store the ones I use to install OSs on hardware on a 16GB on a thumb drive, and Slax as a rescue ISO.
Medicat + Ventoy = Heaven for IT professionals. I was using Ventoy by itself and could tackle installs and move files from burnt drives using a 128gb Samsung harddrive for months before getting medicat. I keep it on my Keychain and lock it up. Please do a video on it!!
Love this utility, have been using it for about 6 months. In that time, I've needed it to restore mother in law's Windows 10 laptop, dual booted my system to Win 10 and ZorinOS 15/now 16. Please PLEASE do an in-depth on the plug-ins as there are very little resources for how to really use and personalize them correctly.
You can theme the menu of Ventoy. The standard menu is rather plain. It uses a json file for that. You've to install a theme on the stick in a seperate folder though. I'm using Vimix on mine. 64GB key with 10 Linux distros and 1 windows (most people use it, don't ask me why) and 6 repair tools for any OS... an insane PC repair tool. I've been using Ventoy since OldTechBloke mentioned it and made a video about it. He showed how you can test it in a VM, great. It's a super tool. Nice videos you have, good job!! Love from Belgium. Just subscribed...
I literally JUST tried Ventoy to create a windows/linux dual boot drive and now you upload a video on it! So much simpler than YUMI or Rufus, just a copy/paste. With UEFI it just works.
Thanx for the demonstration. I recently created my own Linux distribution, F3OS (short for the Free Family-Friendly Operating System, as it's a web content filtered distro), and earlier this week, I uploaded an edition with an alternate desktop environment (F3OS Original uses Xfce while F3OS Junior uses LXDE or Openbox). I could really use this tool in order to have access to both ISOs on the same USB drive.
Several versions back this used to work fine for me, but newer versions have presented me with nothing but issues. Sometimes it won't even show up in Windows to let me edit the contents, sometimes the USB is write-protected and I can't delete ISO files, and it can be a pain in the ass to format it and get Windows to recognize the USB stick again. Not to mention compatibility issues between different machines, Legacy BIOS and UEFi, and even USB 2.x vs 3.x ports. I had used YUMI up until I found Ventoy but that also used to work fine and then started acting up one day. Multi-boot USB technology still has a way to go before we get a perfect solution. Loading single ISO files on to a USB stick with something like Rufus is still the only failsafe way of booting an ISO file across multiple different systems.
Very minor grudge about Ventoy is that as of yet it does not have HaikuOS support. Otherwise Ventoy is crazy cool, It's perfect if you want to get your friends/family into Linux, you can make them try a bunch of distros and it's also super powerful as a recovery/debugging/hardware testing tool.
I am a technician and honest to God I have no idea how I performed my job without Ventoy. I loaded a spare 32GB USB drive the size of a fingernail full of my diagnostic tools and distros and Windows installer and HWIDGEN, and that permanently lives in my coin purse, not even in my toolbox. I always have it with me for a quick diagnostic.
I can’t relate to the technician part, but I keep my ventoy stick wherever I take my computer in case I can’t do a specific task with ChromeOS, or I just want to not be thrown into the IOS equivalent in the Computer world
As soon as I found out about this I was amazed! Have a bunch of iso s on a thumb drive and still use it for regular data!!! Idk if there's a way to do it but this is an amazing setup. Have a bunch of recovery and disk utility os's. Windows Ubuntu desktop and server. About to put a backup of my server onto a thumb drive. If the HD fails I can just boot it up in minutes until I have time to fix it.
The best part is you don't need to flash images again and again, you just can copy the ISO to the usb with cp command and that's it. No need to install ventoy in the live usb and flash the iso image. Sounds too good to be true but it is actually true this time.
@@nac9880 Oh yeah. That's an amazing feature. And ventoy gets installed into a separate partition (depending on GPT or MBR scheme). Now I simply carry around 6 linux distros since I'm a distro addict. 😂
Not only that, but you can still use it as a normal USB drive. You can put your normal files right next to your ISOs on the partition labeled "Ventoy", so there's no need to have separate flash drives for files and for OSes. You can even put the ISOs into a separate folder, and the system will still detect them.
If you do that, I recommend whitelisting a folder specifically for ventoy ISOs using Ventoy Plugson (basically a web front-end for editing the config file) or by editing/making /ventoy/ventoy.json. Because if you don't, ventoy has to scan every directory for ISOs when you boot it (which can take a while depending on the number of files/folders).
I have been using Ventoy the past days in succession and I can only say: God damn, I'm so happy, that this exists! I had to install Win10, Manjaro and EndeavourOS multiple times on my laptop (testing and preparation for final triple-boot in a VeraCrypt & LUKS encrypted environment). This tool saved me soooooo much trouble of reflashing etc. I also went so that my "daily driver" USB Stick (generall just a data USB stick) is a Ventoy-Stick: JUST IN CASE! Lovely stool!
Ventoy is amazing, been using it for a while now, it's especially useful when USB writers like balena or anything else can't figure out how to install obscure distros. With ventoy, it's just copy paste.
Its also pretty neat that you can leave a set amount of space at the end of the disk, so i just use my external hard drive that i use to store stuff, so now its like a true swiss army knife to me
Way more compatible than YUMI for me. Rufus is great whenever I just need a single distro, but this old 32 GB USB key now has way more of a purpose compared to what it used to do. It's just filled with rescue stuff because I'm a nerd who needs that whenever I tinker.
Please define the word "chad"? I am a Gentoo user since 2003 (and a very happy one at that) but how do I know if I am also a "chad" or not? Do I have to be a member of "The Church of Luke Smith" to also be a "chad"? Can you be an "Arch chad"? Or "Ubuntu chad"?
Yet another Ventoy addict; it definitely makes things easier. I toss my iso files on my thumbdrive with Ventoy and throw my transferrable documents and pictures in a folder on the same drive - unbelievably convenient. Ventoy and VirtualBox are a distro hopper's best friends. Good vid.
< Friendship ended with Rufus, Ventoy is my new friend. > Just when you stop thinking about distro hopping this absolute gem of a software comes out.. .. actually I love both but Ventoy is so OP it does not even compare! (but I don't want the Polished Rufus to die if this takes off) When they said 2021 was the year of Linux gaming THIS is what they really referred to. My 2021 Laptop is running Arch (Endeavor) btw but Linux Mint, Artix , Puppy & criminally deprecated Parabola have a special place in my heart for different reasons so I'm curious to check on them yearly. Puppy saved my netcafe sessions during travel, Mint consolidated my desire to quit windows permanently but I couldnt before because of Ph / Vegas / Gaming. - Artix / Parabola / LARBS would be my daily if I knew how to use command line and be comfy to ditch soystemd if it doesn't affect my multitasking + media creating workflow.
OMG. This will be useful soon! I knew there was a reason I followed! Right now I've only played with Ubuntu and Kali and am on Windows because of an ADD ON for FFXI from third parties (The windower) but wow. Next time I want to boot into something that looks intriguing that's childsplay.
It is a great tool to have , found it few months ago and it is realy irreplaceable, just it doesn't wanna work with garuda, idk if it is my pc or what, but everything else i tryed just works.
I discovered it some months ago while searching for something with persistence as a feature, you could add that in a future video. In the live arch iso (with persistence) I set up the wifi so I don't have to do all the times I want to mess with arch.
Very nice tool. I test it all on 64gb usb stick with Ubuntu, pop os and Linux mint. All works as live os with persistent image file. Windows 10 setup works also and sergei strelec win pe iso.
much better than YUMI, because: - works with Secure Boot after enrolling a key in mokmanager - almost identical in both UEFI and BIOS/CSM mode - can setup the USB from operating systems other than Windows - uses only Grub for OS loading, instead of Syslinux with Grub for specific OSs - drag and drop OS installation - exFAT by default (meaning ISOs larger than ~4GB just work without splitting and stuff), but can be easily reformatted to another supported file system without losing Ventoy partition (if you want to use FAT32 for compatibility reasons, for example) - easy compartmentalization of ISOs (instead of using submenu entries in the config file, you can just put ISOs in folders and enable TreeView) - probably other stuff I missed here
I use and love ventoy, but be careful with Windows 10. I was recovering a boot failure for a friend and Windows overwrote the partition of my USB that contained all of my ISO files. This includes, of course, the windows ISO I had booted from. System locked, reboot got back into ventoy with no ISOs installed. So just be careful with Windows.
@Chris I assure you I'm well experienced enough to know how to handle drives and know which one I'm using. You are correct, however, in the fact that the problem wasn't ventoy. I started the repair process and Windows reformatted that particular partition of my ventoy disk. Windows was the problem.
With Ventoy I don't need to use Rufus or Yumi or other tools even to install windows or Linux in UEFI mode GPT style. It just work. My favourite distro is Arch
Algorithm attention time! Long-time Windows user as a zoomer since Windows 95. Started using GNU/Linux distros from Debian, then Manjaro, then MX Linux; ultimately settled with Arch Linux ( btw B^) ) both on my laptop and desktop computers.
ALPINE!!!!! I love the extreme minimalism, glad its supported!!! ik its not a desktop OS but I still love it anyways and will use it any way I want lmao
I've been using Ventoy for almost 2 years now, and it's really good, compatible with most computers... You can also update it without reformatting your usb stick, that's also nice. Only down side until now is that you can't boot Ventoy when secure-boot's on in BIOS.
Thanks for telling me about this. Been using YUMI to make a big utility and installer USB the past couple of days but it is Windows only and thus certified boofware.
What I like the most is that you can flash your USB with Ventoy, forget about it and still use it as a normal USB drive. It's just a 32mb partition you don't even notice it's there.
Oh yeah i've been using this for years now. It's great! There are some incompadibilities ngl especially with UEFI, for example OpenBSD works but you can't install the sets from local storage you have to use the network
Update: I've got a persistent VHD file on my USB, that I'm able to boot through Ventoy.. and ALSO use the VHD file as an attached VM in Hyper-V, on the same file. Whatever's edited in the Hyper-V.. is the same as on the bootable VENTOY
You didn't mention in the video, but ventoy supports grub themes - and if you make your own, you can boot the ventoy device w qemu to test it much faster.
I was wondering if there was a windows multiboot tool. Thanks for showing this. I already have my computers all set up, but If I ever need linux again, I have options.
For some reason everyone who reviews ventoy misses the killer feature. It's not that it can handle mutliple iSOs. Other projects have been doing that for years. No, it's that you can load those ISOs onto the stick freakin' FAST! Other projects are slow as hell.
Just created 5 versions of temple os for my friend and changed the name of the 5 iso's to Ubuntu, Manjaro,Mint ecc. yeap I love him he is trying to learn Linux
The best thing is, that you can easily split your disk drive any way you want, and dedicate space for both boot images and data, and you won't need to recreate it from scratch to change or add another iso. That way you can easily copy some data to the storage partition of Ventoy, perform system maintenance, and then move your files back from the same drive you've booted
@@davida3283 Yes. Matter of fact, you can easily keep files and ISOs in the root of the flash drive. A bit more elegant solution for me was to create two partitions on the USB: 1, containing the ISOs, theming files and the other partition with your own files
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it took me a minute to find, since the list isn't in alphabetical order, but my favorite distro by far is Lenovo BIOS Update.
The song of our people
Ah yes 3CX Phone
@@nahrafe my favorite
my favorite is lenovo diagnostics
@@TXPer dude Lenovo Vantage™ is where it's at, you're missing out bro
As a person who wrote a single ISO on my 1tb stick. I am happy to see this
Question. Can we create a partitions or something to load iso and one for regular file storage. I have 128 gigs usb and I don't want to use it only as live load os stick.
@@vidhyachan6494 Yes if you resize the exFat partition
@@vidhyachan6494 just make a folder with the name of "ventoyignore" and put your other stuff in there, and ventoy will ignore that folder and it's content
@@vidhyachan6494 you can create a partition (with win gui its simple) or just use .ventoyignore file in folder
Me, who already uses Ventoy but is watching this all the way through to boost its popularity and teach the masses of its glory
Same
Ah. I meet another
Do you know how to make persistent images with that ??
@@AcidiFy574 Not really sure what this means, but if you mean keeping the ISOs permanently on your USB flash drive, then yes, you can just copy them into it and leave them on a folder on your USB flash drive & pick whichever you want. The ISOs won't go anywhere, unless you re-format your flash drive.
i've had mixed success when it comes to my Ventoy stick being detected by the machine but this project is no doubt going to be the future of OS installs for 99% of builders
For me whenever I booted a Windows iso from Ventoy, it worked, but corrupted the Ventoy partition so it did not work again untill reformating. Using LinuxISOs though worked without a problem for me.
@@PatrikKronThat is a very weird issue, probably related to your hardware (I'm guessing motherboard or faulty RAM) or USB drive, since I was able to boot WinPE and install Windows just fine.
Yes, Ventoy saved me big time, with its Secure Boot support. I had to reset a laptop to factory default with Windows from Linux. It required secure boot. Only Ventoy managed to create a valid Windows Boot Disk with Secure Boot enabled!
Damn ive never tried to set up secure boot with ventoy, i thought it was just experimental
@@radnukespeoplesminds Yes, it's officially an experimental feature but it worked great for me.
I just turn Secure Boot off. If I purchased a machine that didn't allow me to disable Secure Boot, then I would return it and get my money back. I won't use Microsoft-originated "features" that only exist to try to lock out non-Windows operating systems.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I had to reset the notebook to factory default to return it to the shop so I wanted it to be as I got it. ;-)
By the way, Secure Boot is now easily supported on Linux. You can provide your own key, if you like.
Secure Boot is "nice to have" (and I have it enabled with my own PK, KEK and db/dbx), however, for an Install from a Thumb-Stick that I do trust, I generally turn it off in UEFI for the moment.
I was literally thinking about something like this last week. I'm glad you answered a question I never verbally asked.
The important question is "Can you boot TempleOS from it?"
i looked down for this comment. i was not disappointed.
No
@@sjalvmordsvalsen ventoy confirmed glow in the dark honeypot
Get them glowies
Yes, yes you can.
Tried it, of course, I don't have PS/2 but eh, I have the usb on MBR mode anyways
Wish I had known about this last night. I was having a hell of a time trying to format Windows 10 install media under Linux - I've never done it before and it proved slightly more tricky than I anticipated. Now you're telling me I can just use Ventoy and keep a whole mess of images on one USB stick. Dude, this changes everything!
Linux Mint will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was my first distro I ever used. I often wish I could recapture the excitement and wonder I felt the first time I used a desktop OS that wasn't Windows.
Every time I turn on a computer without Windows on it, there is absolute joy in my heart. Fortuanately, I have no Windows 8 or 10 at home (just a few VMs up to XP) and I use and support Linux at work. So every day for me is a good day, and I laugh heartily at people who have to endure their Microsoft abuser.
Currently in that experience, I'm still getting used to it yet I'm also in awe by all the options I have, i just hope it gets more mainstream
Coming at you from Mint.
I'm going to QEMU VM my current Win7 and run it from a Linux Mint (or possibly Manjaro), probably next week.
Since I'm mainly a gamer, I have to keep Windows for some stubborn games, but hope to port over most of the currently 200+ I have installed over to Linux.
It'll be quite the task, but I'm hopeful Wine and Proton will get the job done.
Looking forward to that fresh Linux feeling - hopefully my experience will be as good as yours apparently was.
@@DarkVeghetta tell me
Even if you wouldnt need multiple ISO's, it seems this would be a great way to simplify setting up a USB stick for installing a new os, since it's drag and drop.
There's already Balaner Etcher for that, one of the most reliable pieces of software I've ever use d
I’ve been watching your videos every day for the past week and I enjoy listening to you just talking about stuff. You are very well-spoken and you talk about stuff I rarely see videos about.
I think thats the first tool u reviewed that i already knew and i see that as an accomplishment on my side
Same for me !
Same
Ventoy was a lifesaver
I dont have a bootable USB and used my phone to make one with it and saved my PC
Ventoy is amazing. An absolute must. You can keep your most important ISOs on there.
I store the ones I use to install OSs on hardware on a 16GB on a thumb drive, and Slax as a rescue ISO.
Medicat + Ventoy = Heaven for IT professionals.
I was using Ventoy by itself and could tackle installs and move files from burnt drives using a 128gb Samsung harddrive for months before getting medicat. I keep it on my Keychain and lock it up.
Please do a video on it!!
I found Ventoy quite a while back. It's amazing.
Love this utility, have been using it for about 6 months. In that time, I've needed it to restore mother in law's Windows 10 laptop, dual booted my system to Win 10 and ZorinOS 15/now 16. Please PLEASE do an in-depth on the plug-ins as there are very little resources for how to really use and personalize them correctly.
You can theme the menu of Ventoy. The standard menu is rather plain. It uses a json file for that. You've to install a theme on the stick in a seperate folder though. I'm using Vimix on mine. 64GB key with 10 Linux distros and 1 windows (most people use it, don't ask me why) and 6 repair tools for any OS... an insane PC repair tool. I've been using Ventoy since OldTechBloke mentioned it and made a video about it. He showed how you can test it in a VM, great. It's a super tool. Nice videos you have, good job!! Love from Belgium. Just subscribed...
I literally JUST tried Ventoy to create a windows/linux dual boot drive and now you upload a video on it! So much simpler than YUMI or Rufus, just a copy/paste. With UEFI it just works.
Finally a good multiboot program! All the ones I found either didn't work or required you to rewrite the entire USB anytime you wanted a new distro.
Thanx for the demonstration. I recently created my own Linux distribution, F3OS (short for the Free Family-Friendly Operating System, as it's a web content filtered distro), and earlier this week, I uploaded an edition with an alternate desktop environment (F3OS Original uses Xfce while F3OS Junior uses LXDE or Openbox). I could really use this tool in order to have access to both ISOs on the same USB drive.
Several versions back this used to work fine for me, but newer versions have presented me with nothing but issues. Sometimes it won't even show up in Windows to let me edit the contents, sometimes the USB is write-protected and I can't delete ISO files, and it can be a pain in the ass to format it and get Windows to recognize the USB stick again. Not to mention compatibility issues between different machines, Legacy BIOS and UEFi, and even USB 2.x vs 3.x ports. I had used YUMI up until I found Ventoy but that also used to work fine and then started acting up one day. Multi-boot USB technology still has a way to go before we get a perfect solution. Loading single ISO files on to a USB stick with something like Rufus is still the only failsafe way of booting an ISO file across multiple different systems.
Very minor grudge about Ventoy is that as of yet it does not have HaikuOS support.
Otherwise Ventoy is crazy cool, It's perfect if you want to get your friends/family into Linux, you can make them try a bunch of distros and it's also super powerful as a recovery/debugging/hardware testing tool.
I am a technician and honest to God I have no idea how I performed my job without Ventoy. I loaded a spare 32GB USB drive the size of a fingernail full of my diagnostic tools and distros and Windows installer and HWIDGEN, and that permanently lives in my coin purse, not even in my toolbox. I always have it with me for a quick diagnostic.
I can’t relate to the technician part, but I keep my ventoy stick wherever I take my computer in case I can’t do a specific task with ChromeOS, or I just want to not be thrown into the IOS equivalent in the Computer world
I discovered this on Chris Titus channel a few months back. It's just an incredible tool.
Been using this for a few months. I love it and recommend it everyone.
As soon as I found out about this I was amazed! Have a bunch of iso s on a thumb drive and still use it for regular data!!! Idk if there's a way to do it but this is an amazing setup. Have a bunch of recovery and disk utility os's. Windows Ubuntu desktop and server. About to put a backup of my server onto a thumb drive. If the HD fails I can just boot it up in minutes until I have time to fix it.
this is so good. Thanks MO for the quality content for 1 whole year!
Batocera is what I am planning on using, as well as Win 11 Tiny, and then excited about other Linux variations! I like the swiss army knife concept!
Ventoy is a blessing. I tried it once, and damn! It's extremely easy to use.
The best part is you don't need to flash images again and again, you just can copy the ISO to the usb with cp command and that's it. No need to install ventoy in the live usb and flash the iso image. Sounds too good to be true but it is actually true this time.
@@nac9880 Oh yeah. That's an amazing feature. And ventoy gets installed into a separate partition (depending on GPT or MBR scheme). Now I simply carry around 6 linux distros since I'm a distro addict. 😂
Not only that, but you can still use it as a normal USB drive. You can put your normal files right next to your ISOs on the partition labeled "Ventoy", so there's no need to have separate flash drives for files and for OSes. You can even put the ISOs into a separate folder, and the system will still detect them.
If you do that, I recommend whitelisting a folder specifically for ventoy ISOs using Ventoy Plugson (basically a web front-end for editing the config file) or by editing/making /ventoy/ventoy.json. Because if you don't, ventoy has to scan every directory for ISOs when you boot it (which can take a while depending on the number of files/folders).
I have been using Ventoy the past days in succession and I can only say: God damn, I'm so happy, that this exists! I had to install Win10, Manjaro and EndeavourOS multiple times on my laptop (testing and preparation for final triple-boot in a VeraCrypt & LUKS encrypted environment). This tool saved me soooooo much trouble of reflashing etc. I also went so that my "daily driver" USB Stick (generall just a data USB stick) is a Ventoy-Stick: JUST IN CASE! Lovely stool!
Ventoy is amazing, been using it for a while now, it's especially useful when USB writers like balena or anything else can't figure out how to install obscure distros. With ventoy, it's just copy paste.
Solus is the first Linux distro in a long time that had me doing a double take. Beautiful environment.
My favourite distro on the Ventoy list is Parted Magic. This distro saved my ass too many times in the last 10 years.
from that list my favourite distros are: TinyCore, Gentoo, void and arch
Huzzah TinyCore!
i use GENTOO BTW
@@mynamejeff2880 same here, i just likr saying that i use arch btw
i see a fellow arch user, i use arch btw
@@gemerization I don't use arch, I just like meming about it
Its also pretty neat that you can leave a set amount of space at the end of the disk, so i just use my external hard drive that i use to store stuff, so now its like a true swiss army knife to me
so far out of every distro i have used, gentoo has been my favorite
I made Gentoo my main OS back in 2003 and I am still here, and still happy with it.
I actually found this recently! Highly recommend, worked for me better than the alternatives
0:59 Fedora fan here! Used to be a soy Ubuntu dualbooter, but I've since become solely a based Fedora-only user.
it's the first time I've heard of Ventoy and I must admit that it's pretty neat
Way more compatible than YUMI for me.
Rufus is great whenever I just need a single distro, but this old 32 GB USB key now has way more of a purpose compared to what it used to do.
It's just filled with rescue stuff because I'm a nerd who needs that whenever I tinker.
My favorite distro is openSUSE. Love the geeko 🦎
This is exactly what I've been searching for past few months, thanks!
I've been using ventoy for about 3 months now and its super useful.
i love my ventoy USB. been using it for about 2 years and it has been very usefull. 128GB filled to the brim of ISOs
Wow I wasn't expecting it to be THAT easy, very cool!
Ventoy has been feeding my distro hopping obsession for months now.
I can't believe a Gentoo Chad as yourself
Just found ventoy.
I love them.
Please define the word "chad"? I am a Gentoo user since 2003 (and a very happy one at that) but how do I know if I am also a "chad" or not? Do I have to be a member of "The Church of Luke Smith" to also be a "chad"? Can you be an "Arch chad"? Or "Ubuntu chad"?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Sir, and or mam. This is a Wendy's.
@@notafbihoneypot8487 Nope, sorry, I haven't got a clue what you're on about. I speak a language called "English" if that helps.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 you know.... Duckduckgo exist.....
@@notafbihoneypot8487 Do you mean "DuckDuckGo exists"? Yes, I know it exists, I use it regularly. No, I still haven't got a clue what you're on about.
My favorite by far has to be Lenovo BIOS update!
No kidding that's so incredibly useful, might just use this next time
Yet another Ventoy addict; it definitely makes things easier.
I toss my iso files on my thumbdrive with Ventoy and throw my transferrable documents and pictures in a folder on the same drive - unbelievably convenient.
Ventoy and VirtualBox are a distro hopper's best friends.
Good vid.
I love how everything needs a web front end these days. That aside its a cool tool
This is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time. Thanks a lot man.
< Friendship ended with Rufus, Ventoy is my new friend. >
Just when you stop thinking about distro hopping this absolute gem of a software comes out..
.. actually I love both but Ventoy is so OP it does not even compare! (but I don't want the Polished Rufus to die if this takes off)
When they said 2021 was the year of Linux gaming THIS is what they really referred to.
My 2021 Laptop is running Arch (Endeavor) btw but Linux Mint, Artix , Puppy & criminally deprecated Parabola have a special place in my heart for different reasons so I'm curious to check on them yearly.
Puppy saved my netcafe sessions during travel, Mint consolidated my desire to quit windows permanently but I couldnt before because of Ph / Vegas / Gaming.
- Artix / Parabola / LARBS would be my daily if I knew how to use command line and be comfy to ditch soystemd if it doesn't affect my multitasking + media creating workflow.
Oh yeah I absolutely LOVE running ESET SysRescue and Lenovo BIOS Update. I run them all the time
ngl eset sysrescue is probably dank. but I haven't scoped out NOD32 in like a decade so maybe not.
OMG. This will be useful soon! I knew there was a reason I followed! Right now I've only played with Ubuntu and Kali and am on Windows because of an ADD ON for FFXI from third parties (The windower) but wow.
Next time I want to boot into something that looks intriguing that's childsplay.
I love Ventoy! Glad to see others enjoying it :)
I like manjaro,algorithm!
just installed it btw, with the KDE environment and man you can make it soooo much prettier than macOS
It is a great tool to have , found it few months ago and it is realy irreplaceable, just it doesn't wanna work with garuda, idk if it is my pc or what, but everything else i tryed just works.
I discovered it some months ago while searching for something with persistence as a feature, you could add that in a future video. In the live arch iso (with persistence) I set up the wifi so I don't have to do all the times I want to mess with arch.
Been using ventoy for years now. It's great!!!
Bro thanks I needed this on a old computer for my nephew to run some games and it worked …was struggling a bit to find something
Hello also congrats on 100k Always have loved ur channel
Very nice tool. I test it all on 64gb usb stick with Ubuntu, pop os and Linux mint. All works as live os with persistent image file. Windows 10 setup works also and sergei strelec win pe iso.
much better than YUMI, because:
- works with Secure Boot after enrolling a key in mokmanager
- almost identical in both UEFI and BIOS/CSM mode
- can setup the USB from operating systems other than Windows
- uses only Grub for OS loading, instead of Syslinux with Grub for specific OSs
- drag and drop OS installation
- exFAT by default (meaning ISOs larger than ~4GB just work without splitting and stuff), but can be easily reformatted to another supported file system without losing Ventoy partition (if you want to use FAT32 for compatibility reasons, for example)
- easy compartmentalization of ISOs (instead of using submenu entries in the config file, you can just put ISOs in folders and enable TreeView)
- probably other stuff I missed here
I use and love ventoy, but be careful with Windows 10. I was recovering a boot failure for a friend and Windows overwrote the partition of my USB that contained all of my ISO files. This includes, of course, the windows ISO I had booted from. System locked, reboot got back into ventoy with no ISOs installed. So just be careful with Windows.
@Chris I assure you I'm well experienced enough to know how to handle drives and know which one I'm using. You are correct, however, in the fact that the problem wasn't ventoy. I started the repair process and Windows reformatted that particular partition of my ventoy disk. Windows was the problem.
About damn time you made a video on Ventoy
My favorite distro is definitely Mii, I wish they were on the switch...
@Rlaziken don't forget the flat design, no personality, animations, no sounds/music just like all operating systems today 😞
With Ventoy I don't need to use Rufus or Yumi or other tools even to install windows or Linux in UEFI mode GPT style. It just work. My favourite distro is Arch
Lenovo Diagnostics is my favorite distro in the list. I just know it'll be the next Ubuntu in a few years.
Thank you, this will actually be extremely helpful.
Algorithm attention time!
Long-time Windows user as a zoomer since Windows 95. Started using GNU/Linux distros from Debian, then Manjaro, then MX Linux; ultimately settled with Arch Linux ( btw B^) ) both on my laptop and desktop computers.
ALPINE!!!!! I love the extreme minimalism, glad its supported!!! ik its not a desktop OS but I still love it anyways and will use it any way I want lmao
Ventoy is awesome, i can have my rescue disk and various distros on one usb. Saved my ass many times
I've been using Ventoy for almost 2 years now, and it's really good, compatible with most computers... You can also update it without reformatting your usb stick, that's also nice. Only down side until now is that you can't boot Ventoy when secure-boot's on in BIOS.
rejoice , the secure boot option is now a thing on Ventoy
Thanks for telling me about this. Been using YUMI to make a big utility and installer USB the past couple of days but it is Windows only and thus certified boofware.
What I like the most is that you can flash your USB with Ventoy, forget about it and still use it as a normal USB drive. It's just a 32mb partition you don't even notice it's there.
Interesting vid. I need to get a 64bit usb before I set this up. All the best 👍.
Manjaro is an awesome one though still needs some community love... after that opensuse or fedora... void linux is also an interesting choice
My favorite distro is alpine, just to boost the algorithm💙💜
Alpine!
Oh yeah i've been using this for years now. It's great!
There are some incompadibilities ngl especially with UEFI, for example OpenBSD works but you can't install the sets from local storage you have to use the network
My list of favorite distros (from the list): Pop, Arch, Fedora, and Void.
and mint
Update: I've got a persistent VHD file on my USB, that I'm able to boot through Ventoy.. and ALSO use the VHD file as an attached VM in Hyper-V, on the same file. Whatever's edited in the Hyper-V.. is the same as on the bootable VENTOY
You didn't mention in the video, but ventoy supports grub themes - and if you make your own, you can boot the ventoy device w qemu to test it much faster.
I was wondering if there was a windows multiboot tool. Thanks for showing this. I already have my computers all set up, but If I ever need linux again, I have options.
Artix FTW, my favorite distro so far
Linux mint is simply the best one for work related use, it's i3wm is simply install and go, with no hassle and no compatibility issues.
i get a bunch of wierd errors in many isos:
No bootfile found for UEFI!
Maybe the image does not support ia32 UEFI
could you cover topic of decentralized internet (heard about some some stuff on Alphabay) or mention some useful onion sites
Thanks for this! It was exactly what I was looking for.
was literally looking at this last night for my external harddrive
For some reason everyone who reviews ventoy misses the killer feature. It's not that it can handle mutliple iSOs. Other projects have been doing that for years. No, it's that you can load those ISOs onto the stick freakin' FAST! Other projects are slow as hell.
Most other projects (except Easy2Boot which includes Ventoy) do not *copy* the ISO, they actually extract the ISO - that is why they are slower.
Just created 5 versions of temple os for my friend and changed the name of the 5 iso's to Ubuntu, Manjaro,Mint ecc. yeap I love him he is trying to learn Linux
The best thing is, that you can easily split your disk drive any way you want, and dedicate space for both boot images and data, and you won't need to recreate it from scratch to change or add another iso.
That way you can easily copy some data to the storage partition of Ventoy, perform system maintenance, and then move your files back from the same drive you've booted
Can you store info in the aame usb stick with the isos?
@@davida3283 Yes. Matter of fact, you can easily keep files and ISOs in the root of the flash drive. A bit more elegant solution for me was to create two partitions on the USB: 1, containing the ISOs, theming files and the other partition with your own files
@@-kurogane- thanks, I will give it a try
Ventoy made it easy to boot linux mint, GREAT
I fucked up a USB trying to do myself exactly what this application does. I'm gonna be using this software from now on
Arch is my favorite :)
Has some really cool themes too
Gentoo has a special place in my heart
Lenovo Diagnostics is sure my favorite distro!