(And no, I don’t want to switch to KDE, thank you.)īut now the time has come where I can’t put it off any longer:Īrduino Studio 2.0 requires newer glibc, many of the Python scripts I write use 3.9 features, and some free software projects I really want to build require higher versions of cmake than that wich comes with my current distribution. One of the major reasons I am running a 5 year old version of Ubuntu despite their regular release schedule is the rant above – I did not want to update many of the GNOME components Ubuntu relies on to their newer, more decrepit versions. It is almost like the GNOME project intentionally tries to sabotage it self by becoming more and more useless! My current predicament:Įven as I type this post my home desktop computer still runs Ubuntu 16.04. Sure, it boots, but it is unusable for anything else, even flashing a different image, unless I clean it up with GParted first.

One thing I hate the most about GNOME project is the fact that starting with version 3, they been systematically destroying their utility apps.Ĭalculator button layout has become a ridiculous mess, setting Alt + Shift to switch keyboard layout requires a 3 rd party tweak tool, and my biggest gripe: the “startup disk creator” has been completely boarked!īack in 2007 I was able to use GNOME 2’s built in tool to create a persistent live USB stick for a friend in need with just a couple of clicks, while simultaneously preserving the files he already had on that USB drive!įast forward to 2021 and all I get is a thin GUI wrapper for dd command, which not only does not allow creating a persistent installation, but also converts any USB drive in to a 2GB DVD messing up partitioning and even sector size!

It supports GNU/Linux, BSD, and even Windows ISO files!.

You can put as many ISO files as will fit on the same USB stick and choose which to boot!.

You can still use your drive normally to carry other files around!.

You don’t need to “flash” the ISO to the drive – just copy like a regular file!.

Key features that make it different from other tools like Etcher or Unetbootin are:

Ventoy is a Free Software multi-platform tool that lets you boot ISO files from a USB drive. Before I get to ranting, here is the quick answer:

Ventoy operating system