From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Mike Easter wrote:   
   > bilsch01 wrote:   
   >> Mike Easter wrote:   
   >   
   >> Next I used current version of Rufus off of the web to make the drive   
   >> a Ubuntu 22.04.03 installer using the downloaded Ubuntu iso. That   
   >> worked, but Rufus warned that maybe the version of Grub (that Rufus   
   >> would use) might not be absolutely compatible with the installer.   
   >   
   > I'm not familiar w/ such an experience.  It interests me enough that   
   > I think I'll dust off the laptop that has W10 on it which is the only   
   >  thing I have that can run the current Rufus 4.2 and see what happens   
   > if I write the Ub 22.04.03 with it.  The newest Rufus is '23 Jul and   
   > that Ub is '23 Aug.  Usually if Rufus 'alerts' on something, it is   
   > about the syslinux and it has a 'stockpile' of versions online that   
   > it can fetch for itself if needed.   
   >   
   I did all that; used the W10 LT + Rufus 4.2 + Ub 22.04.3 and you are   
   correct the alert is about grub, not syslinux, but I would consider that   
   alert 'negligible' as it is about the 'language' difference between grub   
   2.06 and the Ub v. of grub 2.06-2ubuntu7.2.  Rufus even offers to go   
   online and see if it can find access to dl the slightly differently   
   named grub 2.06.   
      
   The other thing I unhappily discovered in the logistics process is that   
   the Ub 22.04.3 is SO FAT that it can't be written to a fat32 USB.  That   
   is ridiculous, because the most common USB I use is fat32 such as a   
   Ventoy stick 'full of' linux .iso/s.  If distro/s start making the .iso   
   so big that it can't be written to a fat32 USB it is going to cause trouble.   
      
   ... which reminds me of something else.  I wish more distro dev/s would   
   do like (somebody I forget) and provide the option of a 'minimal' distro   
   of a conventional desktop, that is w/o all of the 'extras' of office   
   suite and all that.  Call me a distro hopper of whatever term you like,   
   but I'm interested in seeing the newest version of a distro and some of   
   its DEs as a live boot, but i'm NOT interested in it being bloated w/   
   all of the apps I can possibly ever use.  It just takes up time to dl   
   and hashcheck and authenticate and takes up storage space and takes up   
   space on the Ventoy stick and takes up time to boot.  And it uses   
   'unnecessary' resources everywhere.   
      
   Too big to write to fat32 storage!?  Give me a break Ubuntu.  Trim the   
   bloat/fat.   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
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