In 2nd place, I’d put balenaEtcher.
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God damn, they harvest IP records, which iso image of tails, AND the make/model of the USB drive‽
Yeah, I always thought it was suspect because of the balenaCloud ad. Why do people even use this? Why did it get popular? Did paid balenaEtcher shills make it go viral or something?
I think it was just an aesthetically pleasing and simple program to flash things.
More people are drawn to the simple option.
Bloody hell! I had no idea.
Ventoy > Rufus
I've had hit and miss with Ventoy. I love it and it's my goto, but I have a handful of ISOs that it's effectively just storage for - then I use Balena Etcher, Rufus, Raspberry Pi Imager, or sometimes classic dd to burn it to a smaller USB - but if I had to pick one tool, I'd recommend Raspberry Pi, Rufus, or Balena Etcher to a new user just trying to get the job done.
EtchDroid, available from F-Droid, allows you to make bootable usbs from your phone.
Medicat > just Ventoy also, Medicat fuuuuucks
From a quick glance, Medicat is more of a specialized toolkit using Ventoy, no?
And their homepage is... weird.
It’s ventoy with a ton of extremely useful programs included, and an excellent update tool for all of them. The web site seems pretty normal to me! I’ve been using it for a long time and it’s been crazy helpful.
Seeing LTT's nipples is normal for you?
I’m not sure what nipples you’re seeing, but I just see a lot of cats.
Quite literally LTTs nips
~~https://i.imgur.com/ug5aqGQ.jpeg~~
Edit: The file was removed. I assume because... nips.
Edit 2: I just looked at the HTML
This is the page background
https://medicatusb.com/_astro/sexy-papa-linus.654b76fb.png
But it's LTT, lying on his back
This Imgur link comes up with “The requested image can’t be found” D:
Oh god and now it just auto plays some TikTok bullshit. I remember when some guy made Imgur “as a no-bullshit clean easy image hosting web site”
Oh how far it has fallen D:
I updated with the image
Touche! I didn’t see that on the page, okay yeah weird hahaha
Quick edit: yah, I still don’t see that on their web page!
No matter where I move around the room, they follow me
I thought Ventoy was stupid and pointless until I actually tried it. Holy shit. Past me is an idiot. What a great tool.
How does this compare to E2B? Sounds interesting
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They must have liked the joke so much they made it even more important for Windows 11.
Shhh! They might stop people installing it! 😱
Thankfully it comes as a complete portable. Really great app.
careful, they might pull an android and somehow try and stop "sideloading" in windows
Ballsy move, bet the stock price would go up. They should try it.
They don't got the guts yeah I said it
There's already Windows S mode — if you bought a device with S mode enabled, you need a Microsoft account to disable it.
Actually, it's just as useful for making windows install media so they probably just take the rough with the smooth.
Defenestration utilities are essential.
Says a Facebook user.
One thing holding me back from moving to Linux is Directory Opus. It's not on Linux but it's the best file browser I've ever seen, and I can't live without.
Have you tried Double Commander or Superfile?
I get the inertia against switching when you have a setup you like, but the idea of going the other direction -- if I could get the best file manager in the universe but I have to switch to Windows to use it -- I just cannot imagine anything that would make it worth it.
if I could get the best file manager in the universe but I have to switch to Windows to use it -- I just cannot imagine anything that would make it worth it.
Yeah same, but I've used directory opus for the over 20 years now. It's a file browser, so an every day use application, or well, maybe the word living space is a better word.
Next to that, I'm autistic and I struggle with change. I'm struggling with it so much, I'm still using windows even though Microsoft is working hard to make their OS more resentful every day.
I'm not autistic enough to wanting to stay with windows, I am autistic enough to have issues parting ways with a solid, comfortable and properly working system like directory opus. I also begged them to make a Linux version but their response was that the market wasn't big enough for that. But hopefully Microsoft will change that soon, as more and more people are switching because of them.
So I will get there, don't worry. I know there are Linux alternatives, but I'm just struggling with parting ways with something that has been in my system for more than half of my life.
Directory Opus
Like on the Amiga?
What feature from Directory Opus is unavailable in Linux? I assume you can find a plugin or something to make Dolphin (the default file explorer for KDE Plasma, but you should be able to install it pretty much anywhere) do just about anything you need.
I love the folder tree with dual folder content screens with tabs. It also works flawlessly with ftp and network drives. It's own copy/move-paste system is also great. I love how you're able to change loads of settings, including all colors. Also the bulk renaming files function is amazing.
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