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[Kresimir]

@s4ndm4n

The two best software I’ve used is Rufus and Etcher.

I would strongly advise against using Etcher. There are countless better alternatives.

Heads up on Etcher

I was just surfing docs, while you mention excellent methods for creating usb installers in there, including GUI ones… https://endeavouros.com/docs/installation/create-install-media-usb-stick/ I need to raise awareness, that there was huge problem with Balena Etcher privacy reported somewhere on Manjaro forums lounge about a year ago (don’t have access now, so can’t find source - but it was confirmed and removed from Manjaro .iso as well). Surely you can still find a lot of that on internet, …

Especially this post, this post is excellent:

Heads up on Etcher

Frankly, the whole concept of Balena Etcher is utterly absurd to me. It’s a program that writes image files to drives. That’s all it does. That is its main, and only, purpose: to write image files to drives. The size of that simple, single purpose program, however, is 223.5 MiB (at least the version in Manjaro repos). 223.5 MiB! dd does exactly the same thing, plus much more. The size of dd is 75 KiB, and that’s dd from the GNU Utils, i.e. one of the most bloated versions of dd i…