I changed my main machine over to Linux in the beginning of April, setting it up on its own NVMe so I could keep my other drive with Windows 10 intact and dual boot when needed.

I’ve been having a blast - ricing hyprland, better workflows, great gaming experiences.

Then yesterday I realized that I hadn’t actually bothered to dual boot once since testing out the Windows entry in my systemd-boot menu when I first set it up.

Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?

I wiped out the Windows drive with no remorse. Damn, that felt good.

Goodbye Windows, you won’t be missed.

    • paper_moon@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Rufus, the bootable usb creator? Ventoy should do what you want. You install it to the USB drive and then just drop the ISO files into a folder that you want to boot from, and it creates a menu for you to choose which ISO file to choose at boot time.

      You can also natively do what Rufus does in Linux, if you have a disk imaging software installed. I think Ubuntu comes with gnome-disks, you right click an ISO file, click open with, select disk image writer, and select the destination device (your USB drive) and it writes the ISO file to the USB device. You should double check it actually makes it bootable, but I think it does.

    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world
      4·
      21 hours ago

      Huh? In my (exclusively Mint Cinnamon) experience, it’s a right click on the iso away to get a bootable usb (not that I would need that feature on a daily basis, but you do you)

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
      5·
      23 hours ago

      I don’t know your use cases. For me, if it can’t be fixed with ventoy, I use the raspberry pi imager. Not the same options but I find that between both of those, I can handle everything I need