Installing Linux Just Got Easier (USBless install)
Can't wait for the virus that uses this to replace a windows install with a Linux install that's riced to look like windows. Will the normies even notice?
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Sounded really interresting until I saw that this thing was vibecoded.
Imagine something as potentially destructive as software for wiping and installing an OS being AI generated!
Do yourself a favor and get a USB stick with Linux on it, regardless of whether or not you are going to use it to install Linux.
When stuff breaks, you'll regret not having a bootable media like that. Also, if you are using windows and Bitlocker (the default these days), then be sure to store your encryption keys somewhere, where you can easily access them. Otherwise you won't be able to access your Windows drives
Moreover, put Ventoy on a usb stick, then copy in your ISO file(s).
You'll gain:
On windows if you don't disable bitlocker, then login at least once to your outlook.com account so it can backup the key.
If you don't want to do that, install Linux instead.
I do tend to find the native recovery tools for an os to be better suited, so one Linux live cd, and one windows installer or pe recovery tool.
That's not a bad idea, but if you are going to be using Linux then I'd recommend exporting the key and, for example, saving it in your password manager and/or on a USB stick (preferably after encrypting it). That way you can easily decrypt the partition using
dislocker. Also, personally, I do not want to my encryption keys to shared with Microsoft, but that's just me ¯\(ツ)/¯always thought it would be fairly simple to have a Windows program that setup a temporary boot to a Linux ISO that gets stored to RAM. (So that the drive can be wiped for install as needed) Debian based distro ISOs (or maybe just Ubuntu idk) load to RAM with "toram" kernel parameter.
I used some chinese partition tool to rearrange my partitions years ago that did this. It was sketchy as fuck but it worked where I couldn't find another tool that would do what I needed. Can't remember exactly what the problem was but something to do with moving/extending the windows partition that the usual ones I knew of wouldn't do.
Repartitioning is only the first step. How do you add a boot entry?
How much is this vibe coded or is the Ai tool Claude just used to assist with code completion and helping in a few topics? Their acknowledgment is as follows and not very clear:
It is written in Python for Linux and Power Shell for Windows, with almost 3k lines each. I would feel much safe if it used a strongly typed and strict language as Rust, as it would be able to catch some basic errors more easily by design. Which is crucial in context of wiping data, downloading ISOs and installing an operating system. I couldn't trust this project at the moment. But at least it is open source, so that anyone can look into it.
New strat for migrating unattended laptops at the office just showed up!
If you were using Linux in the 2010s you knew this was a thing
I once tried a bit, to make an extra partition for an installer and failed.
It's neat being able to easily do so, but not worth using AI generated stuff for it.
I was running netboot.xyz to the same effect until they stopped updating their images.