> Barry will continue the rest of this page writing in the first-person. Please do. Because this is weird. I have absolutely no stick in this fight. I have al

> Barry will continue the rest of this page writing in the first-person. Please do. Because this is weird. I have absolutely no stick in this fight. I have always found it a bit weird to use iso images on usb sticks, so I'm with him there. But clicking through to his article about why iso needs to die, where he goes into the practical advantage of the img format, which is that you can have a writeable partition and still use the entire usb and not just the boot image, it's immediately obvious why you might not want that. I mean, having a bootable usb that you can also write to is fantastic if you want to have a portable installation with everything you like that you can take with you anywhere. But if you just want a read-only medium from which to install something to dozens of machines, you don't want anyone writing to it. So I think these are simply two different use cases.