John If anybody has any tip of the day ideas, just send them with the subject line “tip of the day”, which is exactly what Commodore Sir Mech did with this pretty good tip.
It’s a software product called Ventoy. I’ve seen these things before and I’ve used them. This one here seems to be pretty damn good.
This allows you to create bootable USBs, which can come in quite handy if you’re on the road and you just take your whole system and make a bootable USB, stick it in someone’s computer.
Adam And blow it up.
John Change the boot order and boom, you got your whole system booting from the USB drive. It just works well.
Adam Huh. So what’s wrong with just taking your computer?
John What if you got a big giant desktop piece of… in my case, I could do that because I’m hauling around these NUCs, these little bitty things, but no. You don’t want to. Or you say you have a work office. You have a home office and an office computer, and it’s a big clunker, and it’s a company thing. It’s not a laptop.
Yeah, there’s plenty of reasons that you want a bootable USB.
Or we say you got a secret system. You got a bunch of stuff you don’t want people looking at.
Adam Well, I’ll be honest. I always have a bootable USB of Omarchy Linux. I carry that with me just in case I need to set up a whole new show. Like a whole new show system.
But that would be pretty much really the end, the end of everything if I had to resort to that. That would be pretty bad.
John Anyway, it uses just an ISO file. Create an ISO file, drop it on here, and it’ll… works well. All right, check it out, please.
Adam Everybody who’s going to do that, raise your hand without talking.
