Favorite "Quick and Dirty" Linux Distro

[britechguy]

Still cannot get Ventoy to work for me, and that's using brand spankin' new thumb drives, too.

I've run Ventoy 1.1.07 to format the thumb drives. I've tried MBR and GPT, as well as exFAT, NTFS, and FAT32 file system formats. Regardless of the combination, after I've dragged and dropped several ISO files to that drive, this is what I get when I attempt to boot from any of them:



I have no idea what's wrong at this point. I have no problem booting from USB media I've created with Rufus or Balena Etcher.

 

[Sky-Knight]

You have to disable secure boot given that message.

 

[britechguy]

You have to disable secure boot given that message.

Thanks, truly, but I'll stick with my "magic keychain of individual USB thumb drives" which always work without the need to do this, at least for the moment. I've kept 'em up to date as needed through the years and don't find it easier to tweak BIOS in event of failure for a Ventoy drive.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Thanks, truly, but I'll stick with my "magic keychain of individual USB thumb drives" which always work without the need to do this, at least for the moment. I've kept 'em up to date as needed through the years and don't find it easier to tweak BIOS in event of failure for a Ventoy drive.

I do the same thing, because turning secure boot off isn't always an option. However, with something like Ventoy, by design secure boot cannot be there. For security reasons I do not use such tools. I need a clean supply chain from ISO to machine.

 

[Diggs]

Wow! Been 8 years since the little old lady and Linux.

Thread 'A little old lady and Linux'

Jul 14, 2017

I had a call today to clean up, straighten out and explain the details on a desktop with Win10 and a laptop with Win7. It was out on a rural farm today and the lady was in her late 70s (early 80s?). She was actually very good with her computers. A real Tech Ninja Jr. After we were about done she kinda looks around furtively and whispered in my ear - "Do you know anything about Linux?" (Like it as some new designer drug.) "My friends and son use it and say its great and I should try it." Heh - There went another 1/2 hour but long story short I left her with a Mint Mate DVD running...

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[britechguy]

little old lady and Linux.

The real question is, what happened afterward?

There's lots of "oooh, shiny!" syndrome in the tech world, promptly followed by the realization that, "the grass is always greener . . ."

 

[Diggs]

The real question is, what happened afterward?

I never had a call back????

 

[britechguy]

I never had a call back????

Which is unsurprising. But, personally, I very much doubt that the individual in question was immediately (or even after consideration) moved to dump Windows and install Linux Mint Mate in its place.

Noodling around with a live boot version is one thing, abandoning Windows is entirely another. I've yet to see it happen, even once, for anyone who's not a dyed in the wool tech geek, and for the reasons I mentioned earlier. Abandoning the decades-long entirely familiar and comfortable is not something most will do. And I've seen plenty who've done the Mac to PC jump or vice versa jump right back.