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Etcher

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Registered: 2020-11-18

Posts: 2

What is Etcher Software?

What is BalenaEtcher?

Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 678

Re: What is Etcher Software?

Have you even tried to google? Also, your post is in wrong forum section.
https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Last edited by Rademes (2021-01-15 13:06)

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crosscourt

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: What is Etcher Software?

I use Etcher all the time and its an excellent app.

Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 678

Re: What is Etcher Software?

I use dd for writing images to USB sticks.

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crosscourt

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Re: What is Etcher Software?

I use Fedora Image Writer a lot and UNetbootin.

tlmiller76

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From: AZ, USA

Registered: 2016-11-29

Posts: 498

Re: What is Etcher Software?

I use usbimager.  Much less...sketchy than BalenaEtcher, and no electron to deal with.  I used to use dd, but I kinda like having a pretty gui. 

Last edited by tlmiller76 (2021-01-18 04:02)

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,560

Re: What is Etcher Software?

I find gnome-disk-utility in the standard repos provides a nice gui for writing images to usb

crosscourt

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Re: What is Etcher Software?

gnome-disk-utility is pretty good and I also like a pretty gui....

4gAV2

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Registered: 2021-03-28

Posts: 9

Re: What is Etcher Software?

With dd the bs switch can make a big difference for the writing speed

See /sys/block/mmcblk0/device/preferred_erase_size it's probably 4M