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When I first heard of it I thought it was some kind of a joke on the current state of desktop software, and a rather tasteless one at that. Then it was recommen

• lpcvoid 5y ago
  Unfortunately, Etcher is a perfect metaphor for the state of "modern" technology in general. Inefficient to it's core.
  • automato 5y ago
    it burns my microsd cards way faster than dd, what do you mean "inefficient to its core"?
    • lpcvoid 5y ago
      I highly doubt that it's faster than a dd with proper blocksize. With inefficient I mean that it's an Electron application.
    • howLongHowLong 5y ago
      Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware, $ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal choice Edit:noticed this is sort of a repeat answer, leaving it so the people saying its slow can copy/paste and try it out.