The easiest way to build bootable USB for Windows / Linux / Rescue CD

I needed to reformat my PC over the weekend and it reminded me of my old days how painful it used to be reinstalling windows from a Pendrive if you do not have proper tooling. However, I stumbled upon Ventoy, which makes creating a bootable USB as easy as copying an iso file to the USB drive and you can have this multiOS USB in your toolbox and use it when needed.

Here is the github repo and this is the official page.

In their own words.“Ventoy is an open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them.
x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.
Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen…)”

Unfortunately, they don't have a mac version available for now, but I was quickly able to prepare a USB on a Linux VM on my mac. Here is a quick start on a Linux machine to work with WebUI. This tool is definitely a must-have.