I'm the family computer guy but dad's probably better at Windows than me.
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Impressive, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's 256GB Ventoy USB with 118 Linux distros and 36 ISO boot tools up his ass
When did you get so tasteful?
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i installed linux mint on my sisters household PC last week.
my dad did his usual grumblings about "it should be windows" and i just said "i've been out of the windows ecosystem completely for the last 5 years and partially for another 3 years beyond that. i no longer provide support for windows, if you want them to have windows you need to support it"
he went quiet after that.
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118 ISOs, and windows ain't one
Shoutout to Medicat toolkit. Takes ventoy to next level.
Is it mandatory to have in your ass or can you just put it in your pocket?
If you’re incapable of figuring out how to install Windows then you’re probably incapable of most things in life.
I am not incapable, I just don't want to.
To be fair, Windows wasn’t meant to be installed by the end user that often. It comes preinstalled.
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Meanwhile me with a CD book that has 17 bootable DVDs and CDs plus a separate DVD+RW for more random, less permanent crap and a portable USB DVD drive (the drive is sourced from e-waste and fails to write both DVD+/-RW and CD-RW at 4x, only 2.4x and 10x respectively work).
I like spinny media.
I mean, I also have a Ventoy disk, but I haven't used it for a looooong time because it's no fun, but discs are.
I just need a bigger backpack. The WRT54GL is taking up quite some space too.
Much cooler than ventoy, no?
As someone who loves collecting/hoarding things, major jealous.
Not to mention iso booting from a disc....just works. Too many times I've tried booting various USB images only to have it fail for unknown reasons, the host machine has this weird quirk of not able to boot from a 3.0 port or...idk
Oh boy, you haven't met some Dell Optiplexes.
That shit, for whatever reason, can't boot from internal DVD drive. I tried with 2 of them. Both had functional drives, I tried disabling secure boot, enabling legacy boot and some other settings which seemed related, but nothing worked. Then for shits and giggles I tried a USB DVD drive and that worked just fine.
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You have all that up your ass!? ( ; ﾟДﾟ)
I mean, they have a hole in the middle, so if I stack them they let stuff pass.
I- I didn't think of that...
Disks are fun, lol are you a masochist?
I bet you never heard its cool sound.
brrrrRRRRR PS PS bRRR PS PS, PS PS, zzzzZZZZZMMMMMMMMM
best thing ever
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Hey if you don’t know how to do it just say so
I'm shy. ┐('～`;)┌
Me with 40$ 1tb external ssd with ventoy be like
I tried that too, it wouldn't reliably boot on things it should have. I remade it on a mechanical drive, same settings, and that one will boot on anything I've thrown it on so far.