Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once

Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by jabroni_salad on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#28160247)

If you make an open source project and support comes from your free time, etcher is a perfect tool. Take the 3DShacks community for example, the users just want to run homebrew for their bootleg games or to cheat in pokemon. They do not care about the intracies of formatting a disk or want to stand up a linux computer. Etcher is a one-button tool that just works and won't create additional work for the nice people volunteering their time as helpers in the community.

Unless you are a very rare person indeed, you presumably liked that your linux computer's OS had an installer to handle all the busywork for you, because installing the OS is not a project that interests you. Personally I am a big fan of compilers that prevent me from having to mess around in machine code. All of computing is abstracting and making things easier and I do not really get why Etcher in particular always attracts these 'i dont get it' comments when this exact microsm is the basis of our entire profession.

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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by sly010 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:53PM (#28160684)

> why Etcher in particular always attracts these 'i dont get it' comments when this exact microsm is the basis of our entire profession

Because if you are creating some bootable media, it's not difficult to assume you are installing something on a raspberry pi, creating some bootable disk to mess around with your or someone else computer or phone, working on an embedded device, etc, etc. Basically I assume you know what a terminal is.

Maybe I am just too old, but I can't imagine downloading and installing a 430MB (just checked) GUI tool that runs one command.

Your example (gamers) makes sense though, and this should be a lesson for me.

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