Introduction

Traditionally, when it was time to install a new operating system you would need multiple flash drives for different operating systems. Sometimes I would even have to reformat the USB to make room for another OS. Not anymore allow me to introduce you to Ventoy. With this program you can pick from a long list of Windows and Linux operating systems and have multiple installations ready to boot from the same USB drive. On top of that you can still store documents and other files on the flash drive and still have the ability to boot from it.

Installation

I will be using Linux but there is an installer for Windows. If you’re following along go to the GitHub page and download and unzip the tar.gz file.

example: this is the command I use but there are more options like enabling secure boot check the readme file. Also your flash drive might be different.

sudo sh Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sda

Make sure to put in the name of your flash drive. You can’t mess this up because any drive you put in will be reformatted.

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Now just drag-and-drop your iso files onto your flash drive. Fun fact if you run this command.

du -h /Path/to/folder

Will tell you the size of the folder. I’ve got 25 GB worth of iso on my flash drive with room to add more. Below is a list of operating systems I have on my flash drive. I have no intentions of using Fedora but I put it on there anyway just to have all 3 branches covered. Windows 10 and mint or Ubuntu are the only ones you need to save the day or convert somebody to Linux. I do plan on testing Garuda When I build a Linux desktop. I wish I knew about this software sooner.

• Windows 10
• Ubuntu
• Mint
• Tails (I would definitely recommend doing some research on this one before using it.)
• Kali
• Arch
• Garuda
• Manjaro
• Fedora

Hope this helps.