Do you still use dd to burn ISOs to USB drives ?
 

I had used dd to burn ISOs to USB flash driver for a long long time but when I found out about Etcher there was no reason to use dd anymore. dd is too slow.
Etcher much faster, I can see the progress & it verifies the written data too.

Do you still use dd to burn ISOs to USB drives ?

Do you still use dd to burn ISOs to USB drives ?
 

No, I use Ventoy. It's a much better solution because you can have multiple isos and pick which one you want to boot.

I would think the USB architecture would determine the speed and not the program.
If its a hybrid iso then I use this approach:
edit: +++ on using ventoy.

Didn't know about Ventoy. I just Googled. I will definitely try it out the next time I want to install a new distro on someone else's PC.

I always use dd.

What is that you like about dd ? I find it just too slow. I must mention one thing. Once I used dd to burn an ISO to USB & got "I/O error" while installing then I burned the same ISO using Etcher & installation completed successfully. Why that happened ? I have no idea.

Depending on the USB and the ISO, I use usbimager or ventoy.

I use dd only because it works every single time. The only other tool I've had success with is Rufus on Windows recently. Nothing else I've tried has ever worked right. Even Unetbootin failed for me every time I tried it.

I have heard a lot of good thing about Rufus but can't use it coz I don't have a single Windows PC at home.

I don't mean to be off topic here and I'm not blaming you, but I'm not surprised someone who uses "google" or "googled" would use some unecessary program to do something that can be done much more easily with default solutions.

Anyways, perhaps you should consider switching from "google" to less abusive search engines. There are quite a few alternatives these days, and if you still "depend" on "google results", you can also get those through https://www.startpage.com in a more private and less abusive manner. I can mention a couple of search engines that does not engage in the abuse google does: qwant, brave, duckduckgo.. And there are many others too. I'm sure there are better local Indian search engines too for more local results with less abuse.

Ps. I use dd ;)

@zeebra

I am not sure if I cant trust startpage after I read this

I am being completely honest with you I sincerely tried to replace Google with Duckduckgo but the results are not at all accurate in comparison to Google. I don't want too use Google but unfortunately I am stuck with it.

I know.. This is why I'm using Qwant, and I know what you mean by result comparison.
But IF I don't find something with Qwant I fall back on startpage to get the google results. I think the same would apply to duck.

Anyways, there are many other alternatives too. I personally like Qwant because they have their own indexing (alike to what old Ixquick had) and they are European under stricter laws on privacy and such.

Anyways, cheers to India, I think if anyone will break the monopolies/duopolies in the future and provide viable alternatives it might be the "IT nation India".. Perhaps your country might be the (first) one to offer real mass market GNU/Linux phones of quality as well in the future.

@zeebra
I didn't know about Qwant. I just visited their page. I will use it for a week and write back about my experience. Thanks for telling me about Qwant.

Been using dd ever since I left MS in 1999, it's always worked for me. :)



P.S. I'd be interested in ventoy if it didn't use exfat - they should use ext4. ;)

I've never used anything but dd. Why use some fancy new program when there is something so simple, tried and tested available?

Mind you, if I had only Windows and I wanted to create an image for booting Linux, I don't know what I'd do. Probably look for some distro that was small enough to put on a CD.