Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
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i still don't understand why anyone would use etcher. it's an electron wrapper over
dd. it's 80MB where rufus is 1.5. when it appeared there were already other programs that did its job better. -
I have had no complaints about it, but with that said, I absolutely would not use it for any vital backup your recovery tools.
It was fantastic however, to use to load up with handfuls of different live distro ISOs to play around with.
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Generally Ventoy is better than both. Choose a dedicated flash storage, flash Ventoy to it, then click and drag as many ISO's as can fit on your drive and you can boot from any one of them at any time.
Much better than Etcher or Rufus, IMO.
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I've been avoiding it ever since the Balena moniker change.
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That's..... Interesting. I've been using Ventoy professionally for like... 2-3 years now and I've not once had an issue with daily use. Unironically like 2500-3000 uses without issue.
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There's also Popsicle which is made by the folks over at System76.
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Hello cat or cp or pv... Or anything else that works with files
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Rufus seems to be just for Windows and dd does not have a gui
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Sudo dd if=tails.iso of=/dev/sdb
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The linked article recommends Raspberry Pi Imager for writing Tails from macOS, and that is also available on Linux and Windows.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Though the site only shows how to install on Ubuntu, the GitHub repo for the tool does have an AppImage that should work on any distro.
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I thought the binary blob thing was explained?
Basically UEFI booting requires shims and those need to be signed so the Ventoy author is re-using the ones from Fedora and OpenSUSE. This can be verified by comparing hashes, which the author of that comment shows how to do.
This whole thing seems to come down to people freaking the F out because they don't understand how the software works and the Author of the software is currently PO'd off at the community and stopped answering questions.
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bash: Sudo: command not found
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Lol, nice one
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I remember a while back, years before this surfaced, there was a thread on /g/ with a group photo of Balena's employees and a caption like "why does it take so many people to develop an electron wrapper around dd". Obviously it was low effort engagement bait (balena does much more than etcher), but the comments were full of people calling the company a glowie honeypot and the like. Moral of the story: Trust the schizos, they sense spyware form lightyears away.
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The price of doing business with UEFI. There are ways around it but it works so fucking smooth. I'm down with it.
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.. and the sign said the bytes of the distro are written to the SD card …. if they’re un-tar’d ..
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Sudontplease
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I like clicking buttons that have a text on them saying what they do instead of trying to memorize a gajillion terminal commands and flags where I have to enter more commands and flags to see what they do.
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In my early days of Linux, I royally fucked up a USB thumb drive (back when they were expensive) using
ddand as a result do not trust myself with it.I would use Hannah Montana Linux if it was the only GUI option to burn a USB ISO.
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I knew that UI had something to hide!
Never trust an overly fancy UI...
