• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    4·
    1 hour ago

    note that the blobs aren’t unknown, they’re builds of submodules that the developer hopefully hasn’t added malware to

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    20·
    4 hours ago

    The “Ventoy Update” post looks rather suspicious to me. The dev didn’t respond to the GitHub issue, so this might just be some jackass pretending to be the dev.

    But independently of that, the BLOBs are even more suspicious…

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    131·
    4 hours ago

    Funny, I’m flashing a new PC as we speak and using dd instead of ventoy for this very reason.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    83·
    4 hours ago

    I wouldn’t trust it in its current state. Maybe things will get cleared up in time, maybe not.

    With that said, how necessary is Ventoy, really? How much time & effort is it really saving you?

    • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      3 hours ago

      Not strictly necessary, but being able to carry all my ISOs on a single USB key saves me from having to redo the whole USB Stick Writer thingy every time. Is there another tool out there that does this and makes it easy for the plebs like myself?

    • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      3 hours ago

      I mean, being able to carry a little thing with multiple OSs AND STILL being able to use it as portable storage for other stuff is really useful.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    51·
    4 hours ago

    I will still use it for testing things, but I will no longer use it for installing the OS on a PC I’m going to use until they get the BLOB issue sorted out.

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I’ve never felt the need for it and didn’t know what it was til just now. dd’ing image files to USB drives has worked fine for me.