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Until I finally traded in my last laptop and didn't realize the new one wouldn't have a disc drive, I still used them to test Linux distros. Other than that, maybe burning actual movies to, for something to watch should the Internet go out? Get a portable DVD player (do these still exist?) to take camping?
Hard copy of your favorite pornos, to be given out as stocking stuffers for Christmas?
I picked up a USB external blu-ray writer for pretty cheap with a USB-C -> MicroUSB cord. I almost never use it, but when I do, it's absolutely needed. It takes it's power from the USB port so it's super easy to just throw in a drawer for it's one use every other year.
"And for Meemaw, a copy of Eating Grandmas' Warm Nookies. Merry Christmas, Meemaw!"
"step grandma noooo, I'm stuck in the Afghan you crocheted...."
Have you heard about ventoy?
You can put this on a flash drive and then just copy a bunch of ISOs on it and have a nice little boot menu where you can choose the ISO you want to boot from.
Yeah, once I finally moved into this decade I started using flash drives, and was using that. Sadly, school doesn't let me use Linux, so now I just keep a thumb drive with Ubuntu on (that I upgrade from time to time), in case I need to rescue something. I really wanted to get into fedora silver blue, it seems right up my alley as someone who's only ever been knee deep into this stuff, but online college does system checks and mandates I use Windows or Mac. :/