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.
From this list, only Unetbootin can create Windows installation disk. For this, there is also WoeUSB but it’s CLI only.
+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.
I’ve found some thumb drives don’t like to boot.
Ventoy has worked for almost everything. Proxmox doesn’t like it.
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.
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/
ventoy is what has worked best for me
Well, on MX I’m using “MX Live USB Maker” which can flash any ISO on thumb drive, it’s a built-in tool.
Now I’m using Ventoy, you just put multiple ISO on the thumb drive and choose it when you boot the USB drive, it’s wonderful, no more “1 OS per drive”, you just take a 32GB USB drive and you can put 10 distro on it.
Ventoy is great as others have said, and probably would do what you want since it has its own installer and is its own bootloader, and can boot isos loaded on the USB drive.
If you want something that works, in my experience, as well as Rufus, maybe take a look at Balena Etcher, too.
They obviously don’t have the features that Rufus has, but I’ve ended up using the default USB image writers that come pre-installed (found them on both Mint and Manjaro, probably available on others). If you’re just looking to write an ISO, check to see if you already have one.