I don't trust myself with cables and ports lol
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You should, idiots do it all the time with no reason to trust themselves
But do check the bios when the computer boots up, see if the cdrom drive is detected before the OS starts.
It's not my computer though
Oh you already crossed that border with your linux evangelism! 😂 jk. i always have multiple live CD/DVD distributions to fall back on. not every device has linux drivers. i wish ventoy had an extension to burn isos to disk for those non/UEFI distros/machines...
does the optical drive show up in the bios?
Haven't been able to check yet. I'm in the middle of baking