Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
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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...
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plus it's some some sanity checks like not showing you your system drives. Or warning you when the drive you are about to nuke is suspiciously large and maybe not the usb drive you actually want to use.
This is basically the main feature. Stopping you from fatfingering the wrong drive
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What options are there for flashing to SD cards? Something that works on Mac too would be nice. A gui is preferred.
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what is a good one to use, is there something like rufus on linux
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Yet another reason for people to run a default prompt (deny until prompt answer) firewall.
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I've typically used Etcher when I have to write an ISO on Windows
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Who tf is downvoting? Ventoy is the best
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for Windows?
