I know you sure do, but no I'm not going to make a fork where I'll just be posting your image files separately, it's not even a fork at that point. Which shouldn't be hard for someone certain to do. I respect your work, but not the way of doing it.By all means, make your own fork. I encourage derivative work!
Info to user Ruxos:
IMG files are mountable with OSFMount.
Tried and tested multiple times. Doesn't work. The previous bin file mounted correctly but this one doesn't. Only the efi partition mounts correctly not the actual medicate (NTFS) partition. I tried the torrent. I tried the Google drive.
Tell me for a fact. What's more versatile for everyone (and I mean everyone), both intermediate to advanced users into all this shmitz. This whole distro is based and made through ventoy. The aio bootloader, giving the ability to boot multiple types of OSes and tools, as long as they are ventoy compatible. Once an OS or tool is compatible with ventoy users can just download that image file in the form of wim or iso download ventoy and make their own USB. If they want to add more to it, all they need to do is download more ventoy compatible distros or make them ventoy compatible themselves. And I know, some of the various tools in this release need to be made after installing some software or the other or you could download a bootable from some not-so-shady site. Regardless, all of that work only consumes time. It can all be done easily. Which is what Jayro has done, for herself first and foremost. Now once all of that has been done, she decided to distribute her entire usb turning it into an image. Which is all good and fine to an extent as an initial release.
But it's goddamn freaking big still. Contains a lot of tools not your everyday Joe might be needing. Or would have heard of them or would ever use them. Yeah they can be useful, and are useful for a lot of people but not for everyone. So is it necessary for everyone to download this huge file considering all that? Let's say, I'm only interested in her work Medicat Winpe. If I am correct her initial work/project started as a continuation of Hiren or Gandalf's, and continue to distribute the winpe. We are all aware of the various tools there are, there isn't a need to redistribute them into a huge file when all you can do is just post the links to them to the original source, or if there was a need to make them compatible with ventoy, all that needed was to post those links separately (host those files individually) and not make a giant mess just because you find it catered to your needs and think that you need every tool at your disposal. Yes, you are a technician working for 16 years in some company and you might need all those tools. How hard can it be to simply host the individual files instead, like what you've done with Malwarebytes, Jayro?
Let me just list some of the advantages to both you and everyone else.
- No need to download a full 22 GB file. Which will save time and bandwidth for a lot of users who don't have the privilege of fast internet.
- No need to be hosting a 22 GB file or host them in parts on torrent, because as per someone, they can get corrupted and whatnot. Hosting the individual image files will not get them corrupted hopefully, and even if they get one can easily remedy it with less upload bandwidth once again. (which should be a better option for the original uploader). You won't need to upload the 4gb split archive files and instead, the smaller image files can be easily uploaded. This would help to seed it back too, nobody has the storage to keep the 22gb file hosted. And then have another 22 GB to make their USB and all.
- People using these images can easily customise their ventoy with what they need. For ex, someone is interested in WinPE and some other tool They don't need to download everything, extract from it and then create their own version. Easily saving a step or two in the process.
- People also don't necessarily need a 22 GB usb either just to use her tools. The way I saw it, the NTFS partition can't be changed. It's either you extract what you need from it and then create your own (for people who don't have a 22gb usb) or use a 22+ gb usb to burn it first, then remove what you don't need or add more to it. Not to mention people who aren't all that knowledged will end up buying a new usb if they don't own a huge usb or just don't have it at that moment.
- People don't also have to stick to ventoy. From what I saw that these images can be used easily with other tools and simply your own bootloader too. Giving people more freedom and options.
In fact, the part about having a rescue disk is supposed to be portable and small. You're not selling a whole usb with your self created patented software like some multi millionaire company. It's all open source. So I don't understand, why or for what reason does this option seems that bad to you that it can't be done. I'm leaving this task to you because you're the original source of this distro, you can update the links faster than anyone else whenever it is updated. It would also help you in a lot of ways, you wouldn't need to create an entire image, split it up and then host it over the torrent. Taking the entire 22 GB of storage just for that. Updates would be easier too. In case half of the tools might not need any update and people won't need to download the whole 22GB file again.
Anyways. This is just my opinion. If people don't see the point in it, then that's fine with me. Needless to say it just shows their narrow minded vision and thinking that everything can be solved with more resources/money if their suggestion is to adapt to having or buying a large storage USB. Let me just tell you that I own multiple usb but alas, I don't need a whole ass huge usb just to rescue my own system. A simple windows portable suffices me enough with a Linux distro to boot, so a 8gb or 16gb usb is good enough for me.