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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:07:47 +0000
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <
[email protected]>
To: Ravi Dwivedi <
[email protected]>
Cc:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: Recommend Balena Etcher for creating bootable disks
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 01:29:38AM +0530, Ravi Dwivedi wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:21:18PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
Hi,
At https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb I think Balena Etcher [1] should
be recommended either replacing win32diskmanager or in addition to it. This
is very easy to use and also works on Mac OS.
[1] https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Thanks
Praveen
Note: please cc me on replies
It is not stable software. It's distributed as a flatpak so anybody
who
really wants it can install it. It's an Electron app which means that >
it's
huge and has interesting security problems.
Does Balena Etcher has security problems or in general, electron apps have security problems?
Electron apps in general are rather large for what they do and the framework has security problems as I understand it.
It works relatively well for SD cards: I am not yet convinced that it
works as well for USB sticks.
Balena Etcher works well for me in Debian. I downloaded an appimage from their website and I flash my USB drives using Balena Etcher. It is very easy to use as well. Therefore, I think that Balena Etcher should be recommended.
PS: Please CC me (ravi at ravidwivedi.in) in your replies as I am not in the mailing list.
(This is a reply to
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2021/08/msg00009.html)
Happy to CC you in this instance since you have expressly requested this.
In general terms, it would be useful to subscribe to a mailing list if you
post a reply to it / engage in discussion on it.
It's not ideal: appimages and flatpaks are also not necessarily ideal.
At the end of the day, it's a file copying app. A 91.2MB zip file of
random stuff requiring an extra entire framework to support it - meh, there must be easier, more secure ways.
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All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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