Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
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...and that's how I met your
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My luck with Ventoy has been very poor. The isos will work a few times and then something breaks and I need to re download all my isos and format and try again.
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Good luck with the binary blob!
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I've used Sardu on Windows for making multi-iso bootable USB sticks a long time ago in the past, but I'd admittedly never looked at their ToS or Privacy Policy. My use case was making some basic antivirus and data recovery toolkit USBs.
When I'm making anything else from Windows, I've always stuck with Rufus. Had never heard of BalenaEtcher before now.
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Glad I saw this. I downloaded the tool on recommendation from a forum post when I was reviving my homelab. I’ll nuke it for sure.
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♬ Hello
ddmy old friend
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For some more context:
https://lemmy.one/post/19193506
seems like dd commands and gnome's MultiWriter might be the only ways to flash stuff on linux -
Last I heard it was also suspect: Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
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Doesn't the official guide recommend using GNOME Disk Utility anyway?
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Fedora Writer is another one (also works on Windows and maybe Mac), and there's also GLIM for multiboot, similar to Ventoy.
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This has been my experience as well. Some people love it, but I'm not gonna rely on it for critical backup or recovery tools (also, there's that whole binary blob thing, besides).
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dd -
Gonna look into GLIM, thanks
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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
