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About recommending the use of balenaetcher #4

Open FieryMewtwo opened 1 year ago

FieryMewtwo commented 1 year ago

Etcher automatically sends things such as IP addresses and analytics data back to balena, and you can't disable it until after it has already started phoning home. Etcher also includes advertising, which entails more privacy concerns on top of the other things I mentioned.

Arch Wiki section on this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_etcher

Tools like GNOME Multiwriter, Kindd, or Popsicle all accomplish the intended goal of writing the ISO to USB, and don't do this stuff. As for not recommending Rufus, I don't know the circumstances on why you don't, but it worked for me on the latest Plasma ISO

Ast3risk-ops commented 11 months ago

We have added DD as an option.

Ast3risk-ops commented 11 months ago

Also I will reiterate we have moved the source code to our gitlab server (signups require admin approval for now)

https://git.blendos.co/blendos/docs

Ast3risk-ops commented 11 months ago

We find Rufus causes issues but Rufus in DD mode would work.

Ast3risk-ops commented 11 months ago

We also prefer to support cross platform and/or popular solutions.

If you want to use something else, use it.