Ventoy VS etcher

Compare Ventoy vs etcher and see what are their differences.

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Ventoy etcher
392 79
57,676 27,636
- 1.2%
7.1 7.4
4 days ago 4 days ago
C TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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Ventoy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ventoy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Using Ventoy, we can create live USB for multiple distros in one flash disk. This is a revolutionary feature compared to other tools, e.g., Etcher, Rufus, etc, that can only create one live USB at a time. This tool is so important. Don't call yourself a distro hopper if you don't know this tool.
  • My New Computer
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    I'm thinking you mean Ventoy? They say they can load vhd and img files, though I've only tried ISO's myself.

    https://www.ventoy.net/

  • Ventoy, Live USB multitool for you ISOs Collector
    2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
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  • Ventoy
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2023
    I faced it too. There is a PR on the ventoy GitHub repository that fixes Proxmox boot.

    https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/actions/runs/7088423200

  • How to Boot ISO Files from GRUB2 Boot Loader
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023
    > While this works, I find this method a bit tedious to use, at least compared to Ventoy [0].

    I find ventoy more tedious, because you can't use it on your hard drive with a sane partitioning scheme.

    The only reason is because of how the ventoy detection hardcode the partition boundaries in its checks, and it means Ventoy can only run with the partitions set in a way that may lead to alignment issues like write-amplification: I've detailed that in https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/1342

    Ideally I'd have a 10G partition after the EFI (or it could even be the EFI itself) with a few ISOs for rescue purposes + a UEFI entry to avoid having to use a bootable USB, but that's not possible with Ventoy unless I accept Ventoy choices of partition boundaries:

                    (pMBR->PartTbl[0].StartSectorId != 2048 ||
  • proxmox 8.1 iso doesn't work yet. when is the next ventoy version?
    1 project | /r/Ventoy | 11 Dec 2023
  • Cài win máy tính
    2 projects | /r/TroChuyenLinhTinh | 11 Dec 2023
  • Booting from a bootable USB flash stick?
    1 project | /r/virtualbox | 8 Dec 2023
    I downloaded and made a bootable USB Ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net) with its Windows GUI app in my updated 64-bit W10 Pro PC. However, I couldn't seem to get VirtualBox v7.0.12 to boot it. I read VirtualBox can boot from bootable USB flash sticks so it should work. Am I missing something?
  • Attempt Q4OS install on Netbook, BUT "unable to install grub in /dev/sda"...solutions?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 8 Dec 2023
    So, yes. The installer will need to install grub to that first partition. You can install ventoy to a usb drive, put a windows iso there and your q4os iso. In case you mess up big time, you can reinstall windows.
  • Am I Able to Get By on Linux Without Using the Terminal All the Time?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 28 Sep 2023

etcher

Posts with mentions or reviews of etcher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ventoy and etcher you can also consider the following projects:

Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

unetbootin - UNetbootin installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive

multibootusb - A collection of GRUB files and scripts that will allow you to create a pendrive capable of booting different ISO files

blackarch - An ArchLinux based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.

netboot.xyz - Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.

cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

multibootusb - Create multiboot live Linux on a USB disk...

WoeUSB-ng - WoeUSB-ng is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. This is a rewrite of original WoeUSB.

WoeUSB - A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux

mate-optimus - NVIDIA Optimus GPU switcher