Post by Pirate PraveenPost by Andrew M.A. CaterPost by Pirate PraveenHi,
At https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb I think Balena Etcher [1]
should
Post by Andrew M.A. CaterPost by Pirate Praveenbe recommended either replacing win32diskmanager or in addition to it.
This
Post by Andrew M.A. CaterPost by Pirate Praveenis very easy to use and also works on Mac OS.
[1] https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Thanks
Praveen
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Hi
Post by Pirate PraveenPost by Andrew M.A. CaterNo - under no circumstances, in my opinion. It doesn't add very much to
what we have.
I stand by this - see also below.
Post by Pirate PraveenSupport for Mac OS does not count? See the target audience here is not
people who already have Debian or a GNU/Linux. The main audience is people
who are currently using Windows or MacOS. For GNU/Linux users cp or dd
already covers.
If you've got a Mac, you've got software that will deal with it included
in MacOS. (Or just use dd from terminal - it might not be as fully
featured as the corresponding version in Debian - sorry, I can't check.]
Post by Pirate PraveenPost by Andrew M.A. CaterIt is not stable software. It's distributed as a flatpak so anybody who
really wants it can install it. It's an Electron app which means that it's
huge and has interesting security problems.
This is quite normal and widely used, element, slack client, signal etc
there are so many popular electron based apps. We are giving it as an
additional option. Yes, there are people who hate electron based apps, but
they are still widely developed, used and loved by people. Same for flatpak
or appimage or docker.
I mistyped. It's an appimage. It's 100MB of obscured single file for one
simple file copy.
Note: slack, signal are all non-free software and wouldn't be packaged for
Debian.
Post by Pirate PraveenPost by Andrew M.A. CaterIt works relatively well for SD cards: I am not yet convinced that it
works as well for USB sticks.You might as well suggest Raspberry Pi imager
from the Raspberry Pi Foundation - their Ubuntu package sadly doesn't
work at all on Debian :(
Again add this as another option.
I have no good means of validating how good or bad the installer is. It's
obviously being well used by people who are writing Raspberry Pi OS images.
I did use this one on a Windows machine to write Raspberry Pi OS and it
worked for me. I also used it to write an arm64 DVD image to a USB stick
so I know that it worked for me to do that.
Post by Pirate PraveenPost by Andrew M.A. CaterI have used it, but, to be honest the potential downsides massively
outweigh
I don't think being electron based is enough to disqualify a useful
software.
Please look very, very carefully indeed at the security problems with the
Electron framework apps. In my opinion, I'd not want to recommend them but
your choice is your own to make.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater