[yonatan8070]

Rufus and BalenaEtcher are both programs for flashing an image to a disk. Ventoy is flashed onto the disk itself (into a small EFI partition), then the rest of the disk is just a regular file system, where you drag and drop a group of ISOs, then pick between them on boot.

[fuzzfactor]

Rufus does more than just flash an image, it's actually quite sophisticated and completely different in ways that copying images with Balena is not.

And Rufus is the product of continuous improvement, maintained brilliantly.