They checked the box. Rufus wrote a secondary bootloader, a tiny piece of GRUB, and a persistence file that Linux would recognize. When the user booted that USB on their Linux laptop the next day, it worked flawlessly.
“I need to make a Ubuntu USB,” the user said. rufus for linux
One night, a user plugged in a drive and launched Rufus on Windows. They checked the box
“You don’t belong here,” said a stern, gray prompt—the Linux terminal, bash . a tiny piece of GRUB