Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On Wed, 6/4/2025 10:44 PM, vallor wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 21:17:15 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in

How do I put the ISO on the USB stick ?

 
Beats me.  How do you do it for Windows?

This tool used to be hosted on the microsoftstore.com . That's
a site where you could buy Windows 8 at the time. Like all USB stick
utilities, it has its own peculiarities (some of the tools *insist*
you put a partition on the stick, then they immediately *erase*
the partition). This should handle Vista (truly obsolete now) to W11.

   Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool.exe

And the other one is Rufus.ie tool.
Which does all sorts of stuff.

Only a burned DVD has hybrid behavior. I don't think
either tool manages that, and you have to decide which
boot mode the stick will support (UEFI or legacy, pick one).

Anything to do with booting, is always a rough ride. Imagine
for example, you own a Dell and someone passes you what they
thought was a decent USB stick preparation. The fun is only
beginning. I dealt with a user once, their Dell was basically
"crazy". It wouldn't do anything you asked it to do. Imagine
getting Linux on that machine. It would try your patience as
a helper. You can't even visualize what is going on and
what to do next. Like, sometimes I can tell from a response,
the shift lock is on. But every response the machine made,
made no sense.

   Paul