Defenestration utilities are essential.
Ventoy > Rufus
Medicat > just Ventoy also, Medicat fuuuuucks
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.
Is there an alternative yet that doesn’t have weird binary blobs that nobody can verify?
This is new to me, I can’t find a reference. Can you share?
This is the alert in Nixpkgs:
to create bootable sticks: fedora media writer. works on windows with every linux image
They must have liked the joke so much they made it even more important for Windows 11.
In 2nd place, I’d put balenaEtcher.
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?
If only Rufus would work on Linux
Use Ventoy.
Just use dd
Fedora writer also works fine for basic flashing
dd works for most Linux ISOs
There’s ISO Image Writer for KDE, and GNOME Disks has this functionality bundled into it.
Rather, is there something wrong with KDE ISO Image Writer’s v1.0.0 Windows VERSION, even if it is 3 years old by now? https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/
Rufus is for when your thumbdrive is so messed up that Unetbootin is like “Nah I’ll pass”.
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
Actually, it’s just as useful for making windows install media so they probably just take the rough with the smooth.
There’s already Windows S mode — if you bought a device with S mode enabled, you need a Microsoft account to disable it.
If you need an app to format a drive and copy some files, maybe you should stick with Windows.
You for real?
100%
It’s literally drag and drop after initializing MBR, format FAT, set active. Rufus is pointless.
Lemmy is sure showing its usual technical incompetency while pretending they are superior because they can install Linux. In a shitpost thread no less.
Pfft, executing write instructions is for normies. I flip bits myself with nothing but a small magnet and my sense of pride
Sure, you could technically just do that manually. But using a purpose-built app designed for that task is just so much less work. Even a veteran Linux user is likely to use an app like dd instead of creating a boot disk manually.
An even better option is Ventoy - You just drop the raw .isos onto the drive and it gives you all of them as options in a bootloader. Can put all of your distros on one drive (and even windows isos if you really need to for some reason).
Is that still using sketchy precompiled blobs? Or was that situation handled?
I thought there was a fork that removed those, but I can’t remember the name.
Funny, I just tried ventoy for the first time the other day. Can vouch, it’s pretty slick!
Whoosh
