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Setting up a flash drive with Ventoy is something I'd highly recommend. Then you can just drag-n-drop isos as you see fit and boot any of them from a nice menu. I keep one around with Fedora, CachyOS, Arch, and Clonezilla isos. I also think I may have an older version of Garuda on it. It's a super useful thing to have around.
things like ventoy are extremely convenient. been using it or a predecessor for years.. but i've run into more images lately that won't boot (or an install fails) from one, so i end up using a different flash and writing the image to it directly (usually with rufus if on win, gnome disks if not). i now have two flash drives dedicated to such reuse.