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?

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      +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.

    • muhyb@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      From this list, only Unetbootin can create Windows installation disk. For this, there is also WoeUSB but it’s CLI only.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    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.

        • qpsLCV5@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          using dd for that is outdated info that everyone keeps blindly parroting with zero understanding why.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.

            • tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
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              5 months ago

              /dev/sdX is a file, and both dd, cat can read files in full. You can even try something like zstd to compress it too.

              One of the nice things about dd though is you can see the progress with --status=progress

  • scratchandgame@lemmy.mlTiếng Việt
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    5 months ago

    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!