I just discovered
Ventoy which creates a bootable USB stick containing many ISOs. It uses the entire capacity of USB stick, so you can boot as many distro as it can store.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy)
On my T450, 1600x900,
What worked:
- Kubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Slackware 15
- Fedora 36 GNOME
- FreeBSD 13.1
- Oracle Linux 8.5
- Windows 10 repair disc
What failed:
- Fedora 36 KDE -- grub screen was distorted and unreadable, but responded to keyboard. I know it defaults to 2nd entry where the ISO is checked. So, move up one, and enter. Once it booted, live session was OK.
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Back in December, Jason started a thread on Ventoy (see this (https://plugintolinux.ca/forum/index.php/topic,1628.msg10440.html#msg10440). It sounded interesting and I downloaded it, but I haven't yet tried it. I will. I like the concept of a multi-boot USB instead of putting every distro of interest on a separate USB.
Actually, you were the OP (original poster) on that thread, Fox, which explains my momentary confusion as I didn't remember anything about it!
T450, William? Is that a Lenovo ThinkPad?
Which distribution ran the best from the USB stick? Does Vanoy allow for persistence?
Yes, ThinkPad T450, i5-5300U.
No persistence. Ventoy only enables booting from many ISO. Just like grub screen, you select and boot from one ISO.
Cool way to try out different distros on different hardware. I remember way back, we were using YUMI for this.