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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?

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[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

+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.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I could never get Ventoy to work. From Windows ISO's to several versions of Linux, it never got detected as a bootable drive. YMMV

I like the idea, but it would be great if it was more compatible with different setups.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've found some thumb drives don't like to boot.

Ventoy has worked for almost everything. Proxmox doesn't like it.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I maintain older hardware at work. We have a platform based on a Biostar motherboard with no USB3 ports, and it will not boot from any USB3 drive I've tried. Any USB2 drives work fine. Picky, picky! 🤷

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