literally stop using balena etcher!

windows: rufus
linux: impression
macos: disk utility

@schrottkatze you mean dd?

@nano also for macos applepi-baker is pretty gud

@daviddd@tech.lgbt@nano@yiff.lifewait wait, try ventoy!

@gabboman @nano ventoy is alright except I tried it with windows once, and it didn't work. But maybe I'm just a noob lol
I mean, I could get into the installer with wimboot, but I couldn't actually install windows for some reason. But a normal USB just worked

@nano no, cp. or cat. dd is terrible for that job.

@schrottkatze cp wont work for writing an iso to a flash drive though? it can't account for multiple partitions or mark the drive as bootable

@gabboman @daviddd ventoy isnt a thing on macos

@schrottkatze also how the hell are you gonna use cat for this?

@nano dd can’t either. dd just copies data. so does cp.

sudo cp /path/to/your.iso /dev/sda or whatever works fine and has less risk of you mistyping if/of and is more intuitive

@schrottkatze im gonna have to try this when i get home because i really dont see how this could work

@nano @schrottkatze i’m guessing cat [file] > /dev/sdx

@nano what's wrong with etcher though?

@foxxo webshit

@nano other than electron?

@foxxo it advertises to you while writing. its also webshit, use real apps, not "apps" in a website-shaped trenchcoat

@thelball @nano @schrottkatze i can confirm that it works

@shitpostalotl @schrottkatze @thelball WHAT

@nano @shitpostalotl @schrottkatze new linux user finding out everything is a file

@thelball @schrottkatze someone in the nix matrix room told me about that and i reacted exactly the same as @nano lol

@thelball @shitpostalotl @schrottkatze i know everything is a file, ive been using linux for more than half of my entire existence, i just didnt think something like that would work

@nano @thelball @schrottkatze the “surely it must be more complicated then that” instinct

@shitpostalotl @schrottkatze @nano tbh this is the first time i’ve heard someone using cat to flash a drive but when you think about it it makes sense

@nano why is balena etcher bad?

@DaSpaceDog webshit that advertises to you while you write