Ventoy is an opensource tool to create a universal bootable USB drive for ISOs and other image files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over to create a bootable USB for different images, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive and boot them directly via a dynamic menu.

New in v1.0.95:

Drag to resize Ventoy2Disk.exe dialog width.
Fix a bug when booting veket_24.
Fix a bug when booting the latest UOS server ISO.
New distro support: vanilladpup
New distro support: FydeOS 17
languages.json update

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[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 16 points 2 years ago

I love this project so much! Makes it super convenient having all my ISOs on a single drive

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Love love love this! Can't believe I'm just now hearing about it

[–] words_number@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

If this works, it's a game changer!! I would have neede this two days ago xD Will try it later!

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Ventoy feels like magic. Love it

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this like Rufus?

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not quite, but it can replace Rufus. Rufus formats the drive and extracts the content of the image to the drive, so every time you need a new bootable something, you'd need to format your drive and extract the image again using Rufus.

Whereas with Ventoy, you just format it once, and then you just directly copy whatever ISO/VHD/WIM etc file directly to the drive, and it can boot from the selected image via a boot menu. So not only does this support having multiple images on one drive, it greatly simplifies the complexity of creating bootable USBs, and saves time since you don't have to format every time. So you could have your own all-in-one USB toolkit with your favorite Linux distros, rescue/recovery ISOs, Windows, backup image files of your HDD that you could boot into directly etc, all on a single drive.

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

I see... cool. Good to see new FOSS projects

[–] ChefKalash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it support SteamOS? Earlier this year I couldn't get it to work

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Did you download the ISO version of the Zip file?

[–] ChefKalash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's an ISO? I could only find a zip file with a bz2 inside

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Hmm, looks like either the ISO has been discontinued, or I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Anyways, if your intention was to try out SteamOS on a PC (or other handhelds), then a better option would be ChimeraOS, which is a community-made SteamOS with more features and better hardware support, and there's also Bazzite which is even more tweaked with goodies.

[–] ChefKalash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, it was for upgrading the m.2 drive on my deck. Ended up creating a bootable usb instead, but thank you anyways!

[–] thehellrocc 1 points 2 years ago

SteamOS 3 hasn't been released as an ISO (yet?), but there's the unofficial HoloISO as a replacement.