Just a quick one. I recently remembered something that really annoyed me, and
that’s people not using the dd command on linux for burning ISOs to USBs. I
cannot tell you how many videos on youtube I’ve seen where someone is burning
an ISO of a Linux distro and is using software like Balena
Etcher. From what I can tell this is a GUI program
to burn ISOs to USB’s, and I’m sure it’s great for people on Windows, but why
use it on linux when we have dd! You can do the exact same thing with a
minimal program that is already on your computer, and is easier to use anyway!
If you don’t know how to use dd, you simply run the following command:
# dd if=path_to_the_iso of=path_to_the_usb_drive. It does not get simpler
than that! Often times in technology, the best tool is the simplest one. They
are usualy the ones that get the job done the quickest and easiest. This is one
of the best examples of this.
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