# Preparing a boot media Preparing a boot media to boot your chosen Linux Distribution is quite easy I would generally recommend one of two tools to flash your ISO to a USB Flash Drive: - [Balena Etcher](https://www.balena.io/etcher/) - [Fedora Media Writer](https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/) After installing/Downloading, launch the software, and follow the in-app instructions with the ISO you've downloaded <span style="color:red;font-size:13px;">Make sure you've selected the correct USB drive, because the selected one WILL be formatted, and data WILL be lost!</span> From here, you can continue by [booting your chosen distribution](/j4XWtvX9RF-03PllJ3Fs5g) *[Linux Distribution]: An Operating System made using Linux *[Linux Distributions]: Operating Systems made using Linux *[Linux Distros]: Operating Systems made using Linux *[Linux Distro]: An Operating System made using Linux *[Wayland]: A modern Display Server Protocol, which is aimed at replacing X.org *[ootb]: Out Of The Box (By Default) *[PipeWire]: Software for Multimedia processing on Linux *[PipeWire-Pulse]: An addition to Pipewire, which adds Audio functionality compatible with PulseAudio *[PulseAudio]: An older Audio implementation used on Linux, which has been mostly replaced by PipeWire *[Offline Upgrades]: Upgrades/Updates, which reboot the PC to apply