![]() ![]() Click on your drive and hit Select to proceed. ![]() I was considering forking USBImager and making the user-interface identical to balenaEtcher, but right now I have my hands full with Rescuezilla (and partclone-utils). Hit the Select target button, and Etcher will automatically detect and highlight all the removable devices attached to your computer. But it's unfortunately the best tool around. The only open-source, cross-platform tool I know that's close to balenaEtcher in user-experience is Raspberry Pi Imager, but that only provides access to Raspberry Pi images and is not that lightweight. I have considered switching to USBImager, as it's also cross-platform and is an extremely lightweight (300KB rather than 100MB), but the user-experience of USBImager is not yet as good as balenaEtcher: as linked above, it's just too easy to a newbie to overwrite a drive they didn't intend to. ![]() Even while writing to USB sticks, balenaEtcher can accesses the internet (as root user on Linux) to update itself and an advertising banner. I agree balenaEtcher is a terrible bloated 100MB application that is built using the terrible "Electron" framework that bundles an entire Google Chrome-based web browser with every download. The safety factor that I describe in the link above is the prime consideration. Many people will come across Rescuezilla trying to eg, undelete their files, and so Rescuezilla will often be the first Linux-based operating system they have ever used.
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