I have several DVDs at my place of residence. However, they only have a 4.7 GB capacity—below the recommended 8 GB for Tails on a USB. Can Tails still be ran from a DVD in 2025?
You can run Tails from a DVD, but a USB is a better option for various reasons.
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A DVD is basically burn-once, DVD-RWs aside. Newer version of Tails will need new DVDs.
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USBs can be used until the flash memory fails. I have USB sticks from 2015 still in use today. If I burnt FreeBSD 10.2 to a CD, the CD would be a paperweight.
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Many modern PCs lack DVD drives. It’s not just netbooks and MacBook Airs, it’s $2000 i9/Ryzen gaming PCs with high-end GPUs, $500 HP Pavilion laptops, refurbished ThinkPads, and everything in between.
However, the ISO image is useful for virtual machines.
hi @qBVO3eoZtyMZGqjnQuA The last ISO image tails-amd64.7.O.iso weights 2.0 GB, so it can be burned onto a standard DVD. However, as previously mentioned by @neel , running Tails from a DVD has several disadvantages