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?

  • insufferableninjaEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Windows ISOs don’t work with just dd or cat because they follow the iso spec for CDs. Linux ISOs do work, because they abuse the iso spec to make a new thing called isohybrid, that is compatible with usb drives. The developer of rufus explains:

    https://superuser.com/a/1527373/53547