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Want to try the new version of the beautiful Elementary OS 5.1 Hera  ? You can use it / test run it without installing it on your laptop using a Live installation USB drive. You can easily create a Bootable Elementary USB 'Live CD' using built in tools that ship with Ubuntu Linux operating system.  Every recently launched version of Ubuntu has a build in tool called Start Up Disk Creator ( command line to launch this app is usb-creator-gtk ). Using this tool, it's very easy and straight forward to create a live bootable installation usb drive. Open the Start up Disk Creator app and choose the ISO path and select the USB drive you want to install it on. Remember to backup the contents of the USB drive, as this process will format the drive and all contents will be deleted. Once you have selected ISO and USB, click on 'Make start up disk' button and wait for the process to complete.

If you have been searching online to find a good, working and easy way to create a bootable Windows 10 USB install drive on Ubuntu Linux, chances are, almost all the ones you tried didn't work out. I had to try a lot and finally one worked - i am posting below the one that worked for me. OMGUbuntu has a tutorial "How to Create a Bootable Windows 10 USB on Ubuntu" which used to work, but no longer works properly. We can call this tutorial a modified version of that How to article as we are going to use the same software to create the bootable USB. First Step : Install WoeUSB - it is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501's WinUSB.  I am on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo 64bit - so i have to i nstall this WoeUSB.deb package.  You can find other WoeUSB.deb files here . Alternately, you can install it using a PPA PPA Method to install WoeUSB sudo add-apt-repository p...