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I might be crazy, but for me it's faster and more convenient to download and run Etcher than to read up on dd command arguments and device paths. Storage space
by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I might be crazy, but for me it's faster and more convenient to download and run Etcher than to read up on dd command arguments and device paths. Storage space is plentiful for me. RAM isn't an issue as it's only run once in a blue moon.
Is it crazy bloated and resource hungry for what it does? Undeniably! Does it matter? Not for me.
Electron resource use can be painful for apps that are running constantly, like Discord, VSCode and Slack. For utilities like Etcher, who cares.
- davegauer 6y agoI realize I'm replying six days later - but I can't help mentioning that the "dd situation" is even crazier than it first appears: you can just use `cp foo.iso /dev/sdb` or `cat > /dev/sdb`. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/189091/220387 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/189091/220387 https://eklitzke.org/the-cult-of-dd https://eklitzke.org/the-cult-of-dd