1. you need Ventoy to stop formatting you're USB sticks
2. Keeping lot of ISO is a bit useless just the few that you use daily.
3. If you're keeping this ISO anyway, get them by torrent and keep sharing for helping the community

Your family will hate you if you'll change their distro and DE every time you visit them. Distro hopping is normal for the first couple of years, but do it on your own machine.

Uh... you do know that people don't literally save a bunch of Linux ISOs, right? It's a euphemism for collecting less legit things, like pirated media or porn.

By the time you want to install the same distro again, it's likely that a new version will be out and you'll want to re-download it anyway.

Edit: okay, okay, some of y'all really do collect Linux ISOs. That's fine; I won't kink-shame.

I can assure you, you will never need them.

I got a USB stick with ventoy installed, got a gparted and an arch linux iso on that thing, I do use those regularly.

Are they Linux ISOs or "Linux ISOs"?

10 USB sticks? why? just use ventoy and throw them all on an external SSD or something. that's what I do. can even use that with specific dotfiles you need for each distro along with ventoy. much easier to deal with than 10 usb sticks.

Upgrade Mint to Kubuntu 💀

You can use Ventoy to have many ISOs on one stick ^^

Use Ventoy, you can have dozens and dozens of ISO on one stick only, when you boot on it you can select the one you want.

If I saw that folder name while using a friend's machine I would know not to click on it to respect their privacy.

Just buy 2.5 HDD put it in USB sata case and use as USB stick with ventoy

Remember to keep Hannah Montana Linux too!

I don't mean to crash the party, I used to love Ventoy too. But then the blob issue came up and it was met with silence for over a year by the maintainer, that made me a bit uncomfortable. They have responded to it a while ago, but it's no trivial task to solve as I understand it: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224

Maybe not Kubuntu? It's not de-Canonical'd like Mint or Pop!_OS, so it'll have weird bad things like Snap or the not-yet-ready Rust coreutils.

Ventoy for most, but some stuff doesn't work with correctly when booted from ventoy:

• ChromeOS Flex won't install to internal drive when ventoy booted, it will when flashed directly to a usb.

• also had Linux Mint 22 try to install to the ventoy drive (wiping it and then crashing halfway through)

• and dealing with really old 32bit bios laptops you'll have to use direct usb too (AntiX still supports 32bit)

Don’t distrohop too much, at one point there won’t be much more to explore with other distros other than wallpapers and themes

Ugh... why? I mean it's a fun process to distro hop and better understand the different package managers, boot process, default services, etc but beyond that I'm confused at what the point is.

FWIW one can distro hop "virtually" in minutes using containers via Podman or Docker (or even QEMU to be more isolated) with images that do have a window manager, e.g. https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ provides Alpine, Arch, Debian, Enterprise Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu with i3, KDE, MATE or XFCE. Switching from one to another takes minutes (basically download time of image content) and if you mount the right directory you can even use your own content for your tests.

Edit : if one wants to install nothing https://distrosea.com/ is quite neat but it's online.

What's wrong with Debian?

Ah remember when I had this phase

Try ventoy

I think I'm missing something here - why would y'all need a storage of ISOs?
Just think of a distro & download it from like anywhere at that moment? Especially if there is a functioning PC you are about to "upgrade". That way you don't need to think ahead of anything & get the latest ISO.

I mean...my connection is so fast it takes like, what, a minute, maybe two to get an ISO? The Internet is my backup device. I can still get copies of Yggdrasil from the early 90s.

If you're wanting to use software that's most easily available on different distros, why not just use Distrobox? If you are just wanting to change the UI, why not just switch DEs? If you really need to be able to randomly switch away from/to system level differences, what are you doing? What would necessitate that?