NB mainly iVentoy seems to be suspicious, relying on Windows exploits to bypass certification needs.

For installation I have had to drop back to a normal single-image USB stick before now because the installer became confused by the EFI partition presented by the unpacked ISO and anything found/not on the target drives.

Ventoy is very handy for running things live though, and not all installers/situations are affected by this (and there they are, it isn't really ventoy's fault).

I just use an enclosure that emulates a dvd-drive. Put a cheap SATA ssd in there and you can stop worrying about incompatibilities.

Good point, [1] is a handy reference on the word. Also used in the compound word "blobfish", of which [2] is a well-known specimen.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blob

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Blobby_(fish)

Or where the LOB types could actually be text ([N]NVARCHAR(MAX) in SQL Server, or the deprecated [N]TEXT in the same), I refer to them as Bloody Large OBject.

Or if you don't like blobs but do like recursive acronyms: Bloody Large Odious BLOB.

care to elaborate on this?

citation needed

I don't have a dog in the fight, since I don't use Ventoy. Are you referring to this https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224#issuecomment-29...?