I use dd. Who cares about the speed — how often do you use it? I used it in 2020 and 2919, but I can't remember the time before that!

That's true for me too. But 3-4 years ago I used to be a distrohopper. I was installing a new distro almost every 3 months but now I simply hate reinstallations & that's the primary reason why I chose Arch. The secondary reason is of course Arch's bleeding edge nature.

That's the primary reason why I don't use Arch!

I am no Arch expert. I installed it 5 months back. I update the system everyday in the morning & sometimes even multiple times a day & despite that nothing broke. YMMV.

Grr! I can't imagine doing that! I update Slackware once a month, AntiX once a week.

Yes, google does better. I use Duckduckgo all that I can but google gives relevant results better.

You don't have to update arch everyday. I sometimes wait 4 months between updates on some machines. And of course that means that the update is 600MB.

I have used dd for 17 or so years. It's a bitstream duplicator, and it works just fine. ddrescue works a little better on a poor source. Such as on a optical disk that is going bad. dd is as basic and important to me as cp, ls, mv, grep etc.

I use dd, it has always worked.

Not insulting anyone intentionally, but I personally kind of feel like for me, it's a waste of time to even consider trying something else. Probably because for various reasons in my past I've tried new stuff which intends to replace classic, good tools, and had nominal to bad experiences. Reason (a) is one may have to learn how to use it, along with any quirks and I've already gotten there with dd, reason (b) is "who knows if under the top level they're not just using dd anyways?", and the obvious reason (c) the new whiz-bang tool may not "just work" as dd does.

In, the past, I used mainly dd, but lately I've been using cp more often, especially for Debian (see here and here). I used dd for my two most recent Arch installations.

Wow! used in the future too..... :D

I didn't know you could use cp to write to a raw device.

Not sure if it's still available, but there used to be a Windows version of dd, that is what I used back then.

I use dd, it works, not tried anything else.

Well maybe simple example
burns on fly, some versions
burns on fly and counts checksum. Sometimes people provide gzipped images instead of hybrid iso's. Just download and pipe through gunzip and all above. You can even count checksums for both compressed image and image itself.

Just don't forget to run sync after running dd.

Come on man... This is literally on the front page of their website: "FAT32/exFAT/NTFS/UDF/XFS/Ext2(3)(4) supported for main partition"

Notice it says "main" partition there... Well the other partition it creates is an EFI System partition, and so their hands are tied with that.