Thank you for pointing it out.
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Generally Ventoy is better than both. Choose a dedicated flash storage, flash Ventoy to it, then click and drag as many ISO's as can fit on your drive and you can boot from any one of them at any time.
Much better than Etcher or Rufus, IMO.
Honestly, if you're using Windows, then you most likely already sent any and all of your secrets to Microsoft anyway. Including that you installed Tails.
What options are there for flashing to SD cards? Something that works on Mac too would be nice. A gui is preferred.
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The MX Linux live USB maker should work well on Debian based distros.
balenaEtcher never worked for me. No image that I flashed has been usable to boot. The RPi imager has been working flawlessly
Glad I saw this. I downloaded the tool on recommendation from a forum post when I was reviving my homelab. I’ll nuke it for sure.
Ahh too bad because balenaEtcher just werks for me.
If you actually read the post, you would have known, it does work, but there are some privacy concerns with it:
“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”
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dd
...and that's how I met your ~~mother~~ fork
I've been avoiding it ever since the Balena moniker change.