Bootqt is a graphical application for preparing bootable USB drives from disk images. It provides a straightforward way to transfer operating system installers, live environments and recovery tools to removable media. The workflow involves choosing a destination USB disk and then either selecting an existing image file or obtaining one through the built-in download section.
Alongside conventional image writing, Bootqt provides access to Ventoy, which takes a different approach to bootable media. Once Ventoy is installed on a USB drive, multiple compatible image files can be stored on the same device and selected from a boot menu. This is useful when maintaining a collection of installation and troubleshooting environments.
Writing an image is a destructive operation, as existing data on the chosen USB device may be overwritten. Bootqt provides a compact Qt interface that fits comfortably into Linux desktop environments, particularly KDE Plasma.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Write ISO, IMG and RAW disk images to USB drives.
- Automatically detect connected USB disks and display their device paths and model names.
- Download installation images for Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, Linux Mint Cinnamon and Clonezilla.
- Download and install Ventoy for creating multiboot USB drives.
- Separate tabs for selecting local image files and downloading images.
- Display a confirmation dialog identifying the destination drive before overwriting its contents.
- Show image-writing status, transferred data and progress information.
- Request administrator privileges for operations requiring direct disk access.
- Attempt to unmount existing partitions on the selected device before writing.
- Provide interface translations for Danish, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish.
Website: github.com/giantpinkrobots/bootqt
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Developer: Giant Pink Robots
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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|---|---|
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