Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
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I mean for privacy things it makes sense to avoid leaking anything. But I fail to understand where the danger is to have anonymous data that says a user installed "Ubuntu-24.04-wappity-whatever.iso" to "KINGSTON DATA TRAVELER 32GB" at some point.
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Honestly if you're using Windows, then you most likely already sent any and all of your secrets to Microsoft. Including that you installed Tails.
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Thank you for pointing it out.
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Don't you need to mark usb disks as bootable if you want to boot from them to install Linux or whatever
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Thanks for the info, I'm on linux mint and after checking these out it isn't immediately apparent from their websites whether or how I could install them. Still think etcher occupies a niche that alternatives don't fill, its website directs you straight to installing it and using it is very easy.
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If anything that seems like worthwhile analytics for the dev team to have access to.
Most software lets you opt out of sending anonymous analytics data though.
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Truth. Etcher is garbage. Rufus is king.
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on mint you install them as packages.
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that's not something i've ever had to do, i've only done that for hard drives.
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Not used it since I discovered this nonsense. Shows how seriously they take security.
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They could just ask. "Please allow us to know what you flash and on what device so we can improve the software" yes, no, tell me more, show me the data
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Ventoy is life!
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Is no one aware of Fedora Media Writer? It's FOSS and the most trustworthy ISO burning software in existence. It's only issue is that its named as if it is written only for producing Fedora bootable media. It works for everything.
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It is a trap for people not knowing and government may use it as excuse to activate executive
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Then I would have no problem using the SW, transparency is important to me
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Or working on a case sensitive system
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A reason was given but no source was provided, and their response to the question was very slow. I don't trust it.
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Opensuse has one too. And dd exists for the brave or the foolish
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did they ever clear up that random unexplained binaries issue?
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Linux mint factory USB creator just right click and make bootable.
