I recently needed to install Linux onto two new systems, and the process has somehow gotten even more infuriating since I last purchased hardware about five years ago. Between Secure Boot, UEFI, the Windows Boot Loader, "self-healing BIOS" (aka, "huh, you tried to boot something other than Windows, lemme just revert all those BIOS settings for you..."), and either crippled or inscrutably complex BIOS, I was dead in the water with the install process for several hours on each device.<p>Ventoy saved my bacon. <i>One</i> of the problems I was encountering turned out to be that one of the BIOSes wasn't recognizing the standard Debian ISO (any of them) as bootable, but it did recognize Ventoy. The other device ultimately refused to boot anything other than either Windows or Ubuntu (hard-locking on kernel load), but Ventoy at least made it easier to trial-and-error my way to that conclusion.<p>I flatly refuse to purchase a mass-market computer ever again. Everything from this point forward is either going to be custom built or purchased from a vendor with explicit Linux support.