Tails - Replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows
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I am shocked by this - the quote in below is very concerning:

“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”

Can’t see myself using this software anymore…

  • madame_gaymesEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Lmao. Uses a computer, typing is too much. It took more typing to write your comment than to craft a tab-completed dd command, even if you had to call the help menu to refresh your available options, jus’ sayin’

    I get it though, the general public are scared of the big bad 'puter magic and need GUIs.

    • Tja
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Tab complete? Just ^R that shit!

      • madame_gaymesEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Shhh, that’s too advanced. Besides, CLI is outdated and slower than GUIs, this is just insane behavior /s

        I honestly didn’t even need to specify tab-completed. It’s still less typing than their comment unless your paths are miles long.

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 day ago

      Let me try: Lmao. Uses a computer, still does stuff the slower way because learning new things is too difficult.

      To be serious, I am looking for the best solutions for my use cases, not adequate ones. Yes dd works perfectly fine and as you noted doesn’t take long to use anyway. But just because it’s fine doesn’t mean other approaches aren’t better.

      A GUI tool can offer or take a list of download URLs for common distros so downloading isn’t a separate step, it can check if the target device is a flash drive and not a hard drive by mistake, it can automatically choose the optimal block size for the device, it can verify the process by reading it back from the device, can show you the current filesystem, label, and usage of the target device to confirm, it can handle flashing to multiple devices at the same time with separate and total progress bars.

      If I wanted to do all that on the command line it’d be quite a lot of commands or a sizeable script to write. Or I can use a simple dd command and lose out on all of the above. Either way it’s a worse option. I will only use dd when a GUI tool isn’t installed, or when I’m on a system without a DE.

      • madame_gaymesEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        We will have to agree to disagree.

        At least you came back with reasons beyond “I don’t like typing.”

        ETA: > learning new things is too difficult.

        I could use this argument for folks that don’t want to learn CLI as well, doesn’t really track in either direction.