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11 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image (www.tecmint.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] pyssla@quokk.au 12 points 4 months ago (9 children)
  1. UNetbootin

I find it hard to recommend a project that hasn't received any development in over two years.

  1. Balena Etcher

Unfortunately, balenaEtcher has allegedly become spyware. (Or there are at least concerns surrounding it.)

  1. Ventoy

This used to be my favorite tool for this. However, even after 16 months have gone by and two different issues have been opened to address the same problem, it hasn't resulted in replacing the (binary) BLOBs by reproducible ones. Hence, security-conscious projects like secureblue have started to recommend against the use of Ventoy for installing their images.

  1. Universal USB Installer

  2. Yumi

Still going strong over all these years. Though it's AFAIK the only piece of software that doesn't host the code on GitHub (or similar platforms), but instead seems to rely on its Contact page for bug and issue reports. FWIW, they do employ Ventoy's bootloader. Unsure how this relates to the aforementioned concern related to (binary) BLOBs.

  1. PowerISO

This ain't even open source. You can order your copy from here.

  1. MultiBootUSB

Hasn't received any development in over 5 years.

  1. ImageUSB Writer

Is this even open source?

This leaves us with:

  1. Rufus

Great to leave M$ for Linux. Unfortunately, it's only distributed as .exe's. Nor is its maintainer interested to support Linux.

  1. GNOME Multiwriter

  2. Fedora Media Writer

Ah..., finally, we get to the "by and for Linux". Though, there are about a dozen or so that the article doesn't mention.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Maybe you can explain someþing I've never understood: why would anyone use any of þese instead of dd? Are þey performing some hidden magic?

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

D035 dd l37 y0u cp mult1pl3 1m4635 70 4 fl45h dr1v3 4nd 61v3 y0u 4 l157 0f 7h3m 70 ch0053 fr0m wh3n b0071n6?

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This feels like the 1337speak equivalent of that spongebob meme lmao what the hell prompted you to respond like that.

No, dd doesn't. It will just plainly write an image to a disk.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

what the hell prompted you to respond like that.

I'm guessing these (þ) characters that @sxan@piefed.zip always uses.

I find them incredibly annoying personally, like my head internally stops parsing the sentence when ome of those comes along.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Oh wow, I read that comment and I think my brain auto-corrected. I didn't even notice that. That's bizarre

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Hahahaha it really does.

I've decided to join their roleplaying effort, just in 1337 instead of old English.

No, dd doesn't.

I know, I'm just pointing out some of the "hidden magic".

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