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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It must have gotten better than the last time I tried to use Ventoy. Maybe 5 years ago? It kept complaining that the USB drive I was using was bad when it worked completely fine with other tools.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

It has gotten a lot better over the years

That was basically my first experience with it as well also about 5 years ago

Nowadays it works like a dream come true for every OS I've thrown on the drive

[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

~~I tried a couple of months ago on my Windows PC and something went wrong somewhere and my USB was stuck in a permanent read-only state.~~

~~I definitely will give it another try though, it's super handy to have.~~

I'm an idiot and got Ventoy confused with another program I was testing at the time. Please ignore me.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 6 months ago

Was it VampBoy? I accidentally ordered one and opened the crate to find a sexy, undead Twink. ☹️ I wanted to nerd-out with Linux!!!