[issue]: Remove BLOBs from the source tree · Issue #2795 · ventoy/Ventoy
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What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'm appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f8946...

I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

  • Brownian Motion
    1•18 days ago

    Ventoy was never the go to option. There are many alternative FOSS that have been running for ages.

    I don’t understand the sudden recent (over the last few years) interest for it. It sounds like bot marketing pushing a product.

    Google “multiboot usb” and you will be smashed with ventoy. This is googles bad algorithm and seo farming. No mention of YUMI or any of the hundred other options available.

    Try searching for “multiboot usb -ventoy” …

    • Lemongrab
      1•17 days ago

      Doesn’t YUMI use Ventoy code? I hope I am wrong because I would prefer to use that instead.

      • @thedoginthewok@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•16 days ago

        yep

        Then most recently, the final YUMI exFAT variant was released. It currently uses a Ventoy bootloader, supports UEFI and BIOS USB booting via a secondary hidden Fat32 partition, and utilizes an exFAT partition for storing the bootable ISO files.