I’m trying to figure out primary distro for framework 16. Currently using fedora for about year. I’ve package installation automated through ansible so technically using new distro is not big hassle still want to see if there is any other way of easily distro-hoping on bare metal.
I’m long time user of Ubuntu and now pop os so that’s one option and other is bazzite (or similar immutable). I would like to try at least those 2.
Ventoy is risky and a bit sus for such a security-critical software.
Glim is another solution for ISO-multiboot-USB that doesn’t require as much trust.
https://glee.thias.es/GLIM
https://github.com/thias/glim
Sure. I booted ventoy to test distros, but when it came time to install the final distro, I wiped ventoy and reflashed it.
It’s not any more sus than running any FOSS project binaries obtained from github. And OP wants to test a bunch of live environments, so that’s not really a security-critical environment.
I’d suggest it’s collective laziness over any even potentially malicious intent. The author listed about the 180 blobs they are aware of, the vast majority from FOSS projects.
Why is it “sus”? Isn’t it basically a bootloader for isos?
Probably in reference to the binary blob controversy. TL;DR Ventoy has always had unreproducible binaries in it and people want them buildable and documented for security reasons. If you want to go down the rabbit hole, here’s the currently active issue (there were several before this one): https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224
Because of all of the blobs it contains. That has caused a lot of people to not trust it.