It will boot Linux, BSD, Windows, or any standard ISO, whatever you want, and works on both BIOS and UEFI machines. You don't need a key-writing tool at all. It's quicker than writing a file, especially with Windows tools such as Rufus.

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The rocky road to better Linux software installation: Containers, containers, containers.Helios-NG: An open-source cluster OS that links the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga.Open hardware smartphone PinePhone Pro starts to ship – to developers only, for now.Ventoy generates a menu of all the ISO files on the fly and lets you pick one, then the computer boots from it. Just copy some ISO files into the big partition, shove the stick into any PC or Intel Mac, and boot from it. It partitions and formats your key with a small boot partition and a bigger empty one. Download either the Linux or Windows version, whichever's more convenient – it's only 18 meg, about a quarter of the size of BalenaEtcher, for instance – and run it. All you need is a spare USB key with enough space for a few ISOs eight gigs will work and 16 is plenty.

Ventoy makes this quicker and easier than anything else we've seen, though.

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