

For this article, I'll go with Fedora Media Writer simply because there are not a lot of tutorials talking about it and because I use it personally. Among all these tools, my favorites are:īoth of these tools are open-source, free to use, and available on pretty much all major platforms. There are multiple tools that can help you to create a bootable Linux USB drive. If you have all of the above ready, you're good to go.

To make this entire article approachable, I'm making following assumptions about your system:

Some Assumptions I’m Makingīefore I jump into the core of the tutorial, I want to clarify a few things. Without any further ado, let's grab a mug of coffee or tea or at least water and jump right into the process.

In fact, machines with both Windows and Linux running side by side are quite common.īut do you know what's more common than machines running both operating systems? Machine owners who have tried to dual boot their machines and ended up losing a lot of data in the process. That doesn't mean that we no longer need a full blown Linux installation. Microsoft has embraced the open-source community quite cordially in recent years, and as a result we have things like Windows Subsystem for Linux baked right into our Windows installations. Gone are the days when Linux and Windows were like two opposing forces.
