So uh basically
>be me
>browse ubuntu docs
>find nice software
it's a crossplatform really nice looking usb drive flashing program.
link: etcher.io
>j-j-just use dd loooool
yeah i know about that program you absolute gay
USB drive flashing software
Michael Jones
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Jason Scott
Rufus > *
Adrian Ramirez
look everybody, a retard.
(you) < *
Easton Cruz
use dd
Nolan Diaz
dd if=/path/to/file of=/dev/sdXY
Lucas Murphy
He's right though. Rufus is the best.
William Baker
Literally use dd. This program has LESS features than it. Not to mention that shit is in electron and takes more space than the rest of my OS
Ryan Ramirez
>command-line interface
>experimental
>not building cli FIRST then a gooey on top of it
this is why modern application design sucks balls.
Aiden Gomez
this
Xavier Stewart
How hard is to just write something in C++ or even using Qt ?
Xavier Butler
>filesize almost 60mb
>electron
why does this even exist?
Bentley Sanchez
>etcher.io
etcher(){
cat < "$1" > "$2"
}
Adam Rivera
Can it do Windows?
I was gonna create a multiOS bootable partition on my USB.
Henry Stewart
What's nice about it OP? It has a nice looking website?
Isaac Gray
And a nice looking UI of the application.
Evan Rogers
That's it? What do you need to do other than pick an input image and output device?
This has to be the worst case of "gui bloat" since you are doing literally the same amount of work with dd, but instead do u have to use electron. And electron seriously sucks. Plus windows has Rufus so fuck off
Oliver Rodriguez
OP, to clarify the "Electron" complaint, this program literally runs a mini version of the Chromium browser just to perform a basic function that can be done using dd: a tiny C program that we've had for decades.
I'm not even opposed to the idea of a GUI program for flashing USBs, but this is just needless bloat, plain and simple.
Eli Turner
>electron usb image burner
Chase Johnson
I'm not a person to complain about bloat but this one is plain ridiculous.
OP have a good time exploring Linux. The nice software is usually already installed on your machine.
Camden Carter
>I'm not a person to complain about bloat
well now you are. welcome to the club!
Eli Nguyen
I really like the program, and it's open sores but why on Earth is that thing like 200 MB?
Brandon Smith
LOL BUT NOW U HAVE TO SPECIFY THE BLOCK SIZE FAGET BETTER HOPE IT WORKS WITH YOUR OS ;VVVVV
etcher just werks on any media. too bad it's non-free though. It's a simple electron app so a foss one is probably less than a year away
Dominic White
You do not have to specify the block size in dd, but you can if you want to. Does this etcher thing let you specify the block size?
Nathaniel Allen
Levi Richardson
>LOL BUT NOW U HAVE TO SPECIFY THE BLOCK SIZE FAGET BETTER HOPE IT WORKS WITH YOUR OS ;VVVVV
Turns out the only retard here is you.
You literally don't have to specify anything with dd other than if and of.
Matthew Evans
on linux i like gnome-disks or dd better ,on windows i like rawrite32 better. Rufus if you need to install windows.
Cameron Jenkins
>one hundred and sixty-two point three megabytes of RAM needed for a 'dd' wrapper
Absolute nope, my friend
>meanwhile Rufus gets you a load of features while staying ~1MB in size and consuming less than 5MB of RAM when running
Kevin Brooks
Rufus is the best and it has dd mode and just works.
Asher Reyes
this shit crashes on mac
Isaac Cruz
I use "startup disk creator" and it works great!
Julian Sanchez
2016 is calling
Andrew Morgan
Most of it it's the electrum stillborn JavaScript monstrosity, I just updated to Rufus 3.2 apparently I been using 2.7 forever.
Joshua Foster
But macs don't have usb ports
Noah Cooper
Name me 1 (one) reason why this technically better than typing
dd if=image.img of=/dev/somedevice bs=5M conv=sync status=progress
in my terminal
>inb4 more memory usage is a good thing
Blake Foster
>make a typo
>oops my filesystem is fucked
Jonathan Young
>Electron App
>Yeah, let's just use chrome for fucking everything
Lucas Baker
>tfw of=/ dev
nvidia level fuckup
Zachary Sanchez
>make a typo
Just don't do that, retard.
Levi Sullivan
Only turbo autists use dd
Charles Wilson
that's some low quality bait son
Gabriel King
This. Or YUMI. Literally all you fucking need.
Michael Hernandez
>mfw idiots don't realize they can use cp instead of dd
cp is more intelligent at setting block size, etc. that's all I use. Just like dd, make sure the destination volume is unmounted.
# cp image_file.iso /dev/sdb
Xavier Brooks
holy shit this is bad
what features does this have over rufus?
whats the performance differences?
do you cry yourself to sleep at night?
Isaiah Long
>mfw when op starts a shill thread only to get BTFO by sane people using rufus
Hunter Howard
fpbp
Benjamin Fisher
rufus on windows, dd on loonix and congrats on downloading your first chrome app OP
Cooper Torres
>he makes typOh's on the c-line
Tyler Bell
>until recently we were embarassed about the steps that involved flashing an SD card. There was a separate track for each Mac/Windows/Linux and several manual and error-prone steps along the way.
They have a good motive guys.
It's for ultra-normies, not for us... Stop the bullying
Nolan Scott
Nice reddit-spacing, cum-diver.
>yeah i know about that program you absolute gay
Either you don't or you're retarded. Otherwise you'd just use it instead of making a big deal of imaging a drive.
Ryan Thomas
well if you know about dd why aren't you using it?
>op is a brainlet
Nathan Harris
when did Jow Forums get so faggy and useless?
NICE BAIT BY THE WAY
Liam Sanders
Electron would be good if it was one instance, shared across all applications. Good fucking luck getting everyone to use compatible versions and even more good luck making it any secure.
Noah Perry
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