Carrying around lots of USB sticks would be bulky, but somehow I expect it to be more reliable than Ventoy - my experience with the Zalman ZM-VE350 has never been reliable enough to replace an external CD drive. I wish there were a bundle pack of USB drives with installers for all Windows and Mac OS versions, so I could just pick out the right installer and install.
As for why you'd want various Linux distros, I imagine it's a similar platform-sensitivity issue. Some only boot Win10, others only Win7 (圆4 or x32), and the oldest only XP. I regularly find old laptops in the trash, and friends like it very much when I repair them and give them away. Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. The USB drive does not need to be formatted, and you can copy as many ISO files as you want. It can be used to create a bootable and permanent drive that can even contain more than one distribution at a time. The laptop has a 2 TB drive, and a lot of legacy software just in case I need to open some obscure file (e.g. Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives. It's been useful to boot into WinXP to play AoE or WoW, or Mac OS 10.9 to run p0sixspwn to jailbreak an iPhone 4S.
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