I was genuinely excited when I first learnt about the Ventoy from a YouTube, then I came to these:
Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months https://programming.dev/post/19516543
Ventoy Update https://programming.dev/post/20508826
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ventoy/comments/1flw461/today_i_discovered_ventoy/
so maybe I’ll hold off with Ventoy for now?
It’s solving a real problem in a niche case. Someone called it gimmicky, but it’s actually just a good tool currently produced by an unknown quantity. Hopefully it’ll be sorted or someone else takes up the reigns and creates an alternative that works perfectly for all my different isos.
For the average home punter maybe even up to home lab enthusiast, probably not saving much time. For me it’s on my keyring and I use it to reload proxmox hosts, Nutanix hosts, individual Ubuntu vms running ROS Noetic and not to mention reimaging for test devices. Probably a thrice weekly thing.
So yeah, cumulatively it’s saving me a lot of time and just in trivialising a process.
If this was a spanner I’d just go Sidchrome or kingchrome instead of my Stanley. But it’s a bit niche so I don’t know what else allows for such simple multi iso boot. Always open to options.