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    submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    This is the only reason why I still use GUI for making Linux USBs. Can't trust my ADHD ass to write the correct drive name. Also, none of my USB drives have a light.

    Popsicle is pretty nice, it doesn't let you choose the internal drives afaik.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Luckily, this problem will disappear soon as we're moving to systems with only nvme drives. Kinda hard to mistake /dev/nvmexny for /dev/sdx.

    [–] uranibaba 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Are we though? My RPI uses a SD card and is labels it as sd and the same is true for virtual machines.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

    The RPIs are moving to nvme too, though indeed a bit slower than desktop machines. My virtual machines use /dev/vdx, and I don't typically connect USB drives to my virtual machines with the intent to flash them :)

    [–] Cenzorrll 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I'm a cheap ass who mostly gets old hardware, so it'll probably be a while before I get to see the benefits of that.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

    Well, try not to shred too many SATA SSDs then until you get there 🤡