In 2nd place, I’d put balenaEtcher.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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God damn, they harvest IP records, which iso image of tails, AND the make/model of the USB drive‽
Yeah, I always thought it was suspect because of the balenaCloud ad. Why do people even use this? Why did it get popular? Did paid balenaEtcher shills make it go viral or something?
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If only Rufus would work on Linux
Fedora writer also works fine for basic flashing
Rather, is there something wrong with KDE ISO Image Writer's v1.0.0 Windows VERSION, even if it is 3 years old by now? https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/
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Bloody hell! I had no idea.
They must have liked the joke so much they made it even more important for Windows 11.
Ventoy > Rufus
Is there an alternative yet that doesn't have weird binary blobs that nobody can verify?
This is new to me, I can't find a reference. Can you share?
While Ventoy is technically open source so the code can be verified, the source also contains a number of binary blobs. As these blobs are already compiled, there is no way to verify what they actually do. Ostensibly, these blobs are just drivers and whatnot that are taken from the official upstream sources and are used by Ventoy for good reason to install things. But because they are already compiled blobs, no one is able to actually verify that. It is possible that they can also do something else nefarious, like secretly install some hidden spyware in your new OS that you are installing using Ventoy.
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224
ELI5: Imagine you like a particular restaurant because they post the ingredients list on their menu. That way, you can tell if a dish fits your dietary requirements. But you notice that while one of their salads lists ingredients that make sense like "ICEBERG LETTUCE" and "CHERRY TOMATO", one of that salad's other ingredients is just "CANNED FOOD PRODUCT". Well, that is incredibly vague and not all that helpful. You can't really tell what that ingredient is or if it is something you are allergic to. For most people, in most situations, it is entirely fine. They can probably eat the salad with no problem. But some people would rather not risk the potential problems that come from not knowing for sure.
It was also strange that after this issue was brought up about Ventoy, it took quite a long time for the developer to actually respond. I believe they eventually came up with a good idea for a solution (using GitHub build actions or whatever to build the blobs from source), but mentioned that will be a big effort to actually switch to. So, they have not actually done that yet. I believe the unverified blobs are still in place in the source right now.
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to create bootable sticks: fedora media writer. works on windows with every linux image
Medicat > just Ventoy also, Medicat fuuuuucks
From a quick glance, Medicat is more of a specialized toolkit using Ventoy, no?
And their homepage is... weird.
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I've had hit and miss with Ventoy. I love it and it's my goto, but I have a handful of ISOs that it's effectively just storage for - then I use Balena Etcher, Rufus, Raspberry Pi Imager, or sometimes classic dd to burn it to a smaller USB - but if I had to pick one tool, I'd recommend Raspberry Pi, Rufus, or Balena Etcher to a new user just trying to get the job done.
EtchDroid, available from F-Droid, allows you to make bootable usbs from your phone.
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Shhh! They might stop people installing it! 😱
Thankfully it comes as a complete portable. Really great app.
careful, they might pull an android and somehow try and stop "sideloading" in windows
Ballsy move, bet the stock price would go up. They should try it.
They don't got the guts yeah I said it
Actually, it's just as useful for making windows install media so they probably just take the rough with the smooth.
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Defenestration utilities are essential.
Says a Facebook user.
Rufus is for when your thumbdrive is so messed up that Unetbootin is like "Nah I'll pass".
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