windows2usb VS quickemu

I've not used this but: https://github.com/ValdikSS/windows2usb

So accidentally wiped the hard drive that had windows back up restore stuff from Dell. Only OS I had available to me at this point is Linux. I thought I could copy you and I saw the DD command but that didn't work and then I discovered that this tool which was perfect windows2usb

MacOS doesn't support files over 4GB on FAT32 volumes, so that one is on Apple. For linux tools you'd have to take it up with the authors - ValdikSS and others. Issues · ValdikSS/windows2usb (github.com)

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui

(I've been using it for annual chores on windows)

[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...

Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.

Also: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues/88

Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)

In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.

VM will be shutdown automatically when it's inactive for a while. I will eventually add more distros going forward. Most distro isos are downloaded using the quickget script from the wonderful quickemu project. You may directly contribute to the upstream project to get the distro added to DistroSea.

If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu?