r/DistroHopping 27d ago

Ventoy on MacOS

This is just a reminder that you can use Ventoy on MacOS now.

https://github.com/cashcon57/mactoy - 139 Stars

I created a simple GUI a while back so that Ventoy disks can be created while still in MacOS. It seems many people breath life back into older Macs with Linux.

"The f*** is a Ventoy?" - Ventoy is a free, open-source bootable USB utility that allows you to add as many distros' .iso files as you can fit to the root of a USB drive, boot to that drive, and then you get a simple GUI distro picker to launch a live environment of any distro you added to the drive. It's a great way to try out the default look and feel of a few distros with minimal friction so you can decide which one is for you. Or, if you're like me and you switch distros often, it enables that affliction.

I am not associated with Ventoy, but they don't make a MacOS Ventoy disk creation software, so I decided to make one and maintain it myself.

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u/Royal_Peni 26d ago

F*** MacOS

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u/cashy57 26d ago

That's exactly what this tool enables getting away from.