> With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.
But isn't copying the ISO file about as much work?
Instead, I suspect a better solution would be to have a bootable file system on the USB drive (instead of an ISO file), which you can rsync new versions to.
With this you can have several ISOs on a single USB and select between them, instead of having several USBs. It's also not super beneficial for my use, but I can imagine it being convenient if you use ISOs/whatever a bit more frequently than I do.
Why is copying ISO file the same amount of work as launching Rufus and going through menus?
> which you can rsync new versions to
Both cases, it is more work than what you're objecting.
"you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly" - Can you explain what specifically is painful about this process?
With Windows you just copy paste the contents of the iso over to the usb. I just completed a ryzen build last week and expected to need special software to build a bootable usb. Microsoft’s documentation told me that I didn’t and to just format as NTFS, mark the partition active and copy/paste the iso.
But isn't copying the ISO file about as much work?
Instead, I suspect a better solution would be to have a bootable file system on the USB drive (instead of an ISO file), which you can rsync new versions to.