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?
What have you used that’s worked well? Or, could I run Rufus on my linux machine with WINE?
A BLOODY STUPID IDEA!
Using Wine is just stupid enough.
dd is safe. I have used Balena’s Etcher 2 years ago but it seems the drive isn’t bootable in UEFI mode!
I haven’t found a good GUI (Balena’s Etcher is cross platform, but the flatpak never worked for me)
dd has never failed me
sudo dd if=<path to ISO file> of=<path to USB> bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync
(double, triple and quadruple check that the output file, of=, is the correct device with multiple different commands before running this)
My honest recommendation is dd It works, it does it’s job, and doesn’t need to many bells and whistles. My only complaint is that there isn’t an easy way to show progress. But as a background command, it works.
The principal alternative to Rufus is Balena etchter, but for me it works 1/5 times. But now I’m using Ventoy and… Just use it, it damn fucking good!
