Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "How do I flash a Linux ISO from Windows? Here are four options." video.

  1. Most of my newer laptops don't have an optical drive but my desktop sure does.
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  2.  @sharkuel  I don't think it's possible for Ventoy to break a drive. My main problem with writing an image directly is that I don't want to dedicate an entire 32GB or larger drive just for 2GB of data, that just feels wasteful.
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  3.  @sharkuel  Ventoy just uses block devices normally. Unless your drive firmware does very strange things (which admittedly some do) Ventoy is no more likely to cause problems than any other application. I don't doubt that your drive broke when using Ventoy, I'm only suggesting that it wasn't because of Ventoy. Let's say a car broke down when driving on I-90. It's (almost certainly) not the highway's fault. If you happened to be on I-95 the car probably would have broken down there instead.
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  4.  @sharkuel  That just sounds like a failing drive. Long response times often precede total failure. What if a car was down on power and blowing out smoke for 20 minutes on the highway? Still not the road's fault.
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  5. Tbh I don't know if I've ever verified a Linux ISO and I don't think it makes sense for an average user. These days the download is going to be via HTTPS so you're not going to be getting a tampered image unless an attacker is breaking TLS and in that case you also can't trust the signature.
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  6.  @johnandmegh  The chance of the download completing but being corrupted naturally crazy low. AFAIK TLS has strong transfer layer integrity checking. You're probably more likely to run into silent data corruption (either on your PC or on the server) than getting corrupted during transit.
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  7.  @oldogre5999  All of them. The different grades of cable all use the same pair colors.
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  8. I don't believe that works because sdx is a block device.
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  9.  @UnixOath  A block device is the raw storage device. They behave differently than regular files.
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  10.  @UnixOath  Tbh it might work, I'm honestly not sure. My point is block devices often work different than other files. I'm pretty sure the opposite command (using cp to make an image of a device) would not work.
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  11. Of the three remaining big brands NVIDIA is the only complicated one, support for AMD and Intel is built in. If you don't need performance or advanced features I would stick with nouveau which should just be the default. If you want to use the proprietary driver do it through your distro instead of NVIDIA's website.
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  12. Actually they did have optical media in 1900. Photographic film is the OG optical media.
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  13.  @unconnectedbedna  I don't know offhand any distributions which don't work with Ventoy but there's plenty of hardware (really system firmwares) which don't. For example it doesn't seem to work on Macs. On a fully supported hardware platform the need to change Secure Boot settings makes it less user friendly. Ventoy isn't hard to use but I would not recommend it to beginners.
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  14.  @u1f98a  Ventoy has worked on just about every non-Apple post-2011 hardware I've tried. Not working on Macs is probably the biggest problem, I don't know if the latest versions have fixed that or not. Other than that you need to enroll its key if you are using Secure Boot which is usually easy but sometimes annoying.
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  15.  @Arachnoid_of_the_underverse  If you find a nefarious download link they can just as easily give you a hash/asc for that nefarious image.
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  16.  @jeremywakeman  Most of them are made by IODD. They're not exactly cheap but as far as I know they're the only company in this space.
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  17. Short version, no. You'd need to re-engineer everything.
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