From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:51:55 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:   
      
   > > I had to watch a YT vid to see how it actually works, but I'm definitely   
   > > going to give Ventoy a go.   
      
   > It has many features.   
      
   I'm only discovering them just now. What I found very interesting was   
   how it works with HP laptops. They've been a bit of a PITA in the past   
   for me, because you have to set them to 'grub.efi'. Ventoy caused an   
   error in my HP laptop, but it was easy to solve.   
      
   I also liked the fact that you can easily update the flash drive and   
   that you can copy several ISO files to it.   
      
   > I'm a fan of booting live linux distro/s w/ persistence, which   
   > persistence comes in various 'forms'.   
      
   I'm familiar with 'persistence; I think UUI (and Rufus) has that option   
   as well.   
      
   > I like the persistence of MX/Anti-X, Puppy & EasyOS, and mkusb/dus; I   
   > don't really care for the type of persistence afforded by 'straight'   
   > ventoy or Rufus.  That persistence only allows some 'storage'.   
   >   
   > Ventoy CAN be 'induced' to participate in/ facilitate/ booting the good   
   > kind of persistence of MX & Pup/Easy via their own mechanisms off the   
   > Ventoy F6 boot option called 'ExMenu' or secondary boot menu.   
   >   
   > The good persistence enables persisting changes to the system. My faves   
   > of the ones I like in terms of convenience are Puppy & Easy; my fave of   
   > 'varieties' of persistence are AntiX/MX.   
      
   Sounds interesting. ATM I'm just using it to install a Linux OS. I'm a   
   volunteer and help people with (small) digital problems. With W10 being   
   unsupported within a year people are frightened or think that they need   
   to buy that brand new PC/laptop for W11.   
      
   We can offer them an alternative by installing Linux Mint. Although I've   
   played with Linux I'm not a real expert. But for people who only use   
   their device for mail, browsing and office365, switching to Linux would   
   be ideal. I installed Linux Mint yesterday and the Dutch translation   
   seems decent (although obviously done by a Dutchman and not a Fleming).   
   It wasn't like that in the past. And I know installing new software is   
   also much easier than it was in the past (via terminal).   
      
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