If you want to install Linux on a desktop, you'll first have to create a bootable USB drive with your distribution of choice. Don't worry. It's easy.

If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

Trying to burn to a single layer DVD which has 4,707,319,808 bytes available and the .dmg image uses 4,348,218,934 bytes yet Disk Utility insists "The disc inserted does not have enough free space ...

This post shows you the procedure to create a Windows 11/10 Bootable USB on macOS, for your Windows PC using Boot Camp Assistant utility.

Create a bootable USB stick from Linux I was keeping the best for last. If you are running Linux, you can use the dd command (as in the instructions for macOS above) to create the bootable drive.

Here's why it's recommended for every Windows user to have a Windows 10 boot drive around at all times.

A macOS Catalina USB install drive is a great tool to have on hand to for quick and easy macOS 10.15 reinstalls. We show you how in this video tutorial.

Win32 Disk Imager is a free tool for Windows to write an IMG file to removable device and backup your removable device to a raw image file.