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Yes, I've used Balena Etcher dozens of times from my Windows machine and I've never had a problem with it. Windows and Linux ISOs work just fine.


Same here - I have had issues with the other mentioned softwares but rarely with etcher. (I have had cards be seemingly broken and fail to image - I don’t think etcher was to blame. )


Seems to be hardware- and OS-dependent. Eons ago, don't know the version anymore I used it under Linux out of curiosity I guess, and because some project nagged about using it for verification of written images, or else.

Anyways, that thing always complained about a bad checksum at the end, no matter which media, system, port, writer I used.

And I always thought: Oh, really? And booted the failed checksum images flawlessly. To me this thing seemed like a stupid prank, adding no value over any other method. Even less so, considering the Electron crap.

Btw. the writing checksummed perfectly fine with dd on all the media, hardware, system and ports I used.

And don't bug me with did you file a bug?

Why? They can bug off for all I care :)




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