>mfw having to burn a DVD in 2017 because my laptop can't

Is your laptop from 2005?

Laptops from 2007 onwards all supported USB boot unless you bought some off-brand garbage

>>59361525
>what is plop boot manager

>>59361556
MacBook from 2008. Can't handle standard USB booting, only USB drives containing an OS X installation work.

I'm glad I didn't throw my DVDs out.

>>59361556
My 32-bit laptop from 2004 can boot from USB.

>>59361606
My 32-bit desktop from 2004 can't boot from USB.

>>59361618
Are you certain? Sometimes it's not so obvious, as you manually need to set settings in bios like legacy USB and boot order.

>>59361592
What is rEFI?

>>59361525
DVDs are good for sneakernet

I do network engineering, but I'm forced to do helpdesk/desktop support when the helpdesk team is unavailable.

I always bring an optical unit, since booting from USB never ever fucking works.

No don't tell me about "try this different utility", or try this or try that, since booting from USB always fails miserably.