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I'm not OP, but I've had all sorts of bad experiences getting "non-official" bootable USB media to work properly, in various edge-cases and weird hardware. And

I'm not OP, but I've had all sorts of bad experiences getting "non-official" bootable USB media to work properly, in various edge-cases and weird hardware. And by "official", I mean an .iso or .img directly dd'ed onto a drive - this is the setup that I've found to be most reliable. I haven't tried Ventoy, and I suspect things are slightly nicer these days now that EFI has matured, but I'm personally not prepared to spend any longer than necessary debugging why my bootable USB isn't working properly.

satysin 4y ago
This makes sense, I guess when I read they didn't "trust" VenToy my brain went to "I worry it might modify my install ISO with malware" or similar rather than the reliability/compatibility aspect. I've not used VenToy with anything but official ISOs so cannot comment to more unique uses but I've never had an issue with the official images of Fedora, Debian, Windows, Ubuntu, etc. For me VenToy has been great at making life a little easier and saves me time. I have a 128GB USB drive with two dozen ISOs on it. Much easier to work with the one drive vs half a dozen I have to keep rewriting ISOs onto.
GTP 4y ago
For what is worth, I use Ventoy and it works very well for me. Only problem is it fails to boot if you have secure boot enabled, but I didn't even try to look for a solution since I don't use it anyway. So maybe there's an easy way to have it signed so it works with secure boot too.