Finding the best Linux solutions for new users

[neil]

Hi all, I’ve split some of the posts regarding tools for creating live USBs into its own topic, as I think it’s a useful standalone topic for fixers:

Tools for creating Linux USBs - recommendations and advice (Ventoy/Rufus/balenaEtcher etc)

Also, Rufus is currently only available as a Windows executable afaik, whereas balenaEtcher has downloads for multiple platforms. Ventoy doesn’t even need to be installed, just unzipped to your local drive. It provides a GUI or can be simply run from cmd line to create a bootable USB drive, then you just copy ISO files to it, as many as will fit. I have 20 ISOs on a 256GB stick. I’ve been trying them out on nearly 20 rescued laptops. You can also test drive Linux distros at Distrosea although you don’t get a choice of hardware to run on, but it’s good for checking out interfaces and defaul…