I’ve been trying to find a linux programming similar to Rufus to flash images of OSes on a thumb drive.
Nothing from the listicles on the internet or the programs in flatpak have worked for me as well as Rufus on Windows.
What have you used that’s worked well? Or, could I run Rufus on my linux machine with WINE?
One of these should do what you’re looking for. Each has a slightly different approach.
+1 for ventoy. With that you can just flash ventoy on it once, then copy iso’s over to the usb drive without reformatting or reflashing anything.
I could never get Ventoy to work. From Windows ISO’s to several versions of Linux, it never got detected as a bootable drive. YMMV
I like the idea, but it would be great if it was more compatible with different setups.
Your machine is UEFI, which means your usb stick must be formatted in gpt. Ventoy defaults to mbr which means lagacy bios. It is just 3 mouse click setup.
Try again. Because it is the best method. I just updated 2,5 years old Ventoy stick without any issues without re-formatting.
I’ve found some thumb drives don’t like to boot.
Ventoy has worked for almost everything. Proxmox doesn’t like it.
Popsicle from Pop!_OS is also very good - really simple. I’m not sure if it can create a bootable Windows USB though.
https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle
Fedora Media Writer is also another good option.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/preparing-boot-media/
From this list, only Unetbootin can create Windows installation disk. For this, there is also WoeUSB but it’s CLI only.
