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?

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What?

Rufus just flashes ISOs to disks. On Linux you can doo that with

  • udisksctl or dd
  • Impression
  • Fedora Media Writer
  • KDE Iso Image writer
  • Balena Etcher

But you are talking about something completely different and Ventoy does that.

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TIL you can do that with udisksctl. How can you do that?

I usually just use dd or Ventoy.

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I thought that was what Impression uses but it doesnt tell that anymore. So I dont know

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Or just cat file.img > /dev/…

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I think you should use dd for that?

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Why? I am free to use whatever I want. This is not Microsoft Windows.

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using dd for that is outdated info that everyone keeps blindly parroting with zero understanding why. cat is simpler and works fine.

note: both cat and dd only work for this when the image is made in a compatible way, my linux isos always work fine but a windows iso didnt and needs a more specific tool.

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