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what is a good one to use, is there something like rufus on linux
https://circle.gnome.org/? Never tried their ISO software, I just use dd.
I just use Gnome Disks for convenience over dd.
is there something special needed for windows isos, it doesnt seem to want to boot for me
Can always use dd but I always go stupid when I need to set boot flags and all that crap, which is so much easier with etcher. I think I've done dd with gparted in the past.
i've never needed to set a single flag with dd. i just do
if=the_iso of=the_disk. what flags?Don't you need to mark usb disks as bootable if you want to boot from them to install Linux or whatever
that's not something i've ever had to do, i've only done that for hard drives.
i think it depends on the image you get - for archlinux you can simply cat (or dd) the file onto a usb stick and it works perfectly fine, bootable. but i think i have seen an image at some point where it didn't work, but i don't recall what it was.
It won't depend. I think it's because back in the day we never had an easy way to force boot a device, if a device wasn't flagged as bootable it wouldn't boot
does gparted set the correct flags too, can it also do windows
i just want a dumb ui i can dumbly drag the iso file to and it takes care of everything for me.