Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Etcher

Re:Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Et... by lpcvoid on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:15AM (#28906271)

Unfortunately, Etcher is a perfect metaphor for the state of "modern" technology in general. Inefficient to it's core.

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Re:Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Et... by automato on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:08PM (#28910940)

it burns my microsd cards way faster than dd, what do you mean "inefficient to its core"?

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Re:Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Et... by howLongHowLong on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:02AM (#28917166)

Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware, $ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal choice

Edit:noticed this is sort of a repeat answer, leaving it so the people saying its slow can copy/paste and try it out.

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Re:Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Et... by lpcvoid on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:45AM (#28915458)

I highly doubt that it's faster than a dd with proper blocksize. With inefficient I mean that it's an Electron application.

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