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Isn’t Balena’s entire business model taking things that could easily run locally and wedging a cloud dependency in to allow them to be profitably enshittified?
There are like a dozen other ways to do what Etcher does so... 🤷
I never really understood why etcher was the choice, it was a crazy bloated program that was like 100 or 150mb? To do the same job as Rufus could do in like a dozen or so, and if you’re on Linux you can just use gnome disks or something, never had any issues there either. Just made no sense to me why they recommended it in the first place.
Sometimes rufus-made usb drives wouldn't work for me, but etcher did. Shrug. I didn't believe it either until I tried it.
Use dd, or check out the Fedora Media Writer if you want a GUI tool.