I had to use Ether recently to write a Linux image to a pendrive (it didn't work when I used Rufus, they specifically stated on the site to use Etcher) and I couldn't believe what a piece of trash software that is.
To think I had to install an over a 100 MB application to do such a trivial task, it was mind-boggling.
I had to write a 100MiB "rescue" Linux image to a USB drive, and was offered two methods to do it: 150MiB "Etcher" and 1.1MiB Rufus.
Yes, the flasher was larger than the image I was trying to flash. The word monstrosity comes to mind. Rufus literally has more features. You may think the interface of Etcher is "better", but is it really 150x times better ?
So is it a piece of trash because of the size of the software or because it doesn't work well? I'll grant that the size seems excessive but I tend to use it because I hardly ever need to use it and it makes a task that I don't want to have to care about really really easy. That's sad if there's a smaller piece of software that makes the task just as easy and error proof I'm certainly happy to switch to that.
I had to use Ether recently to write a Linux image to a pendrive (it didn't work when I used Rufus, they specifically stated on the site to use Etcher) and I couldn't believe what a piece of trash software that is.
To think I had to install an over a 100 MB application to do such a trivial task, it was mind-boggling.