For example, you could keep your favorite desktop OS therein, alongside your favorite ARM OS (for your raspberry pi), alongside your favorite system rescue utility.
You can add as many images as you want. There’s no need to use any special software to write your images to the USB stick. The number of steps is the same, but Ventoy really shines in the following aspects: The destination is just an ordinary directory, nothing fancy. You could use cp from the command line, you could also drag and drop using your file manager, whether it’s from Windows, Linux or macOS, doesn’t really matter. Copy it to the USB storage, using your file manager. Download Ventoy, and install it to your USB flash drive. Unless you have multiple USB sticks, suddenly you will find that your 32 GB (or even 128 GB) storage is useless to hold multiple operating systems. You can only keep one bootable image at a time in your USB stick. Even for rolling release OSes like Arch Linux, Gentoo or Alpine Linux, you’ll typically want to have a more up-to-date image anyway, otherwise the installation process will eventually become problematic 4, as the system gets more and more out-of-date. You’ll have to redo this whole process whenever there’s a new release of your OS. Extra measures need to be taken in order to use it the rest of its storage persistently. The USB flash drive contents are completely erased. This works well if you only need to do it once or twice, but carries a few caveats: Boot your workstation, press some key to change your BIOS/UEFI setup to boot via USB. Run an application 3 to write the image to the block device. Grab a USB stick 2 and format/erase it. The typical linux desktop user workflow to try out new distros 1 is to: With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. 
Open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
Ventoy: A keychain for all your live operating systems
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