4 ms·
Etcher is easy to use but why on earth did they decide to make it an electron app?
by cosmotic 5y ago
Etcher is easy to use but why on earth did they decide to make it an electron app?
- vxNsr 5y agoPortability, RUFUS is windows only, most other tools require a lot more work to port. this one appears to be installable/usable on Win/Mac/Linux Personally I'm a fan of ventoy[0] though it doesn't appear to be installable on mac, but if you set it up on linux/windows you can just drop any iso you want onto it from any system and it'll work like a charm. [0] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
- cosmotic 5y agoI can't imagine electron is more compete than a wine wrapper around a native windows app. Qt or similar gui shouldn't be too much work for what appears to be a single window app.