Re: Recommend Balena Etcher for creating bootable disks
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:21:18PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb I think Balena Etcher
[1] should
>> be recommended either replacing win32diskmanager or in addition to
it. This
>> is very easy to use and also works on Mac OS.
>>
>> [1] https://www.balena.io/etcher/
>>
>> Thanks
>> Praveen
>>
>> Note: please cc me on replies
>>
>>
> No - under no circumstances, in my opinion. It doesn't add very much
> to
> what we have.
> It 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.
Does Balena Etcher has security problems or in general, electron apps
have security problems?
> It works relatively well for SD cards: I am not yet convinced that it
> works as well for USB sticks.
Balena Etcher works well for me in Debian. I downloaded an appimage from
their website and I flash my USB drives using Balena Etcher. It is very
easy to use as well. Therefore, I think that Balena Etcher should be
recommended.
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(This is a reply to
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2021/08/msg00009.html)
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