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I strongly recommend against ventoy for multiple reasons.

  1. It ships an embedded OS’s worth of prebuilt binaries that it does not build from source, and AFAICT nixpkgs still packages it that way.
  2. The way it actually works is by committing unspeakable crimes against early boot that I’m shocked work at all.
  3. And in fact, it doesn’t work reliably. It’s very common for it to simply not work with NixOS.
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