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My reason to use Ventoy is the possibility to have multiple ISOs on one single USB stick. Before I would have to dd the new ISO to the stick, wiping what was there before. Effectively this resulted in more writes to flash and ultimately multiple broken USB sticks.

FWIW, I think you mean `dd`.

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You can just use Syslinux with the memdisk module (if you want to boot full ISOs stored on the thumbdrive), or you can extract the ISOs into directory trees and configure Syslinux menu options to load the contents equivalently to the ISO's original bootloader (as long as they're not using hardcoded paths or volume labels to find the filesystems to mount).

Thanks for the info. It does sound much more cumbersome than Ventoy. Given its current state as of linked issue, I still should look into it...

You can cp the image to a block device and it will work

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