Ran across it yesterday & wondered if anyone in here has tried/used it.
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Thanks, I guess I still don’t have a grip on the search in these new forums. And I thought when I typed the word in the new topic it would show in the right side area that lists related topics.
I’ll try harder to do search’s next time.
I typically use ‘dd’ or the Susie Studio for bootable USB’s. Good to know ventoy can cause problems & stick with tried & true methods.
I used ventoy in the past without any issue to create a multiboot USB stick. After reading some reports at their own webpage and some others how it works and makes changes to the original iso’s, I decided to dump it.
I then used grub2 to create a multiboot USB stick, works just as good and there is no need for some software with maybe unwanted hidden features. Everything is in my hands.
Creating the stick is easy, the challenge is to create the correct grub entry. Here is a screenshot of my current multiboot USB stick setup, with a customized background picture.
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Then why venture to some other tool?
I’ve been using “dd” since the late 70’s, and it’s still working, and it’s such a simple command with minimal typing.
I can understand newbie folks who (the majority migrating from Win), let’s say, want to do a backup, so look for a simple GUI program, cause they feel intimidated using “rsync”.
But yea, “dd” is highly reliable and easy, available on all distros.
I only ask if anyone has tried it.
Didn’t mean to start a discussion about what is best….
I use it for all my installs.
Nice to have all the bootable ISOs on a single drive 
There were some issues in the past with openSUSE as they were adding some extra kernel command line args, but it appears to have been fixed prior to 2024 when I started using both. 
I use ventoy for all of my installs as well. I have only run into one iso that didn’t work with it, that was Garuda Dragonized Gaming iso, all other versions of Garuda worked fine, openSUSE worked fine, OpenMandriva worked with a simple work-around for installing, Debian, Arch, Fedora, and all of their derivatives work fine for me.
Ventoy seems to work fine for many users.
That being said, it is inconsistent. We still get a number of reports from people using ventoy to install openSUSE Distributions, that results in glitches, or even broken installs.
This is why it is not a recommended installation method.
You, of course, are free to use whatever method you wish to install openSUSE Distributions, there is nobody stopping you from doing so. Just be aware, that Ventoy is not a supported method, and if things go sideways, there’s a good chance that you’re not going to find support in sorting out what went wrong, or how to fix it.
The project provides a number of recommended methods, that have proven to be consistent over many installations, and reduces the support overhead for broken installations.
I suggest that for best experience, stick with the installation methods that are recommended.