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USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Post by rvz »

YES.

This is the replacement open-source GUI USB imager app I have been waiting for.

> 500KB vs 210 MB

Essentially this is a 99.99999% reduction of disk space and run-time usage with the same functionality which really puts its electron garbage counterpart to infinite shame. There is no contest here.

Feel the satisfying moment of removing this 'balenaEtcher' bloatware and replace it with a true, efficient and magnificent cross-platform native alternative app.

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Post by peter_d_sherman »

It would be an interesting test to test all USB imagers alongside one another, and then use a different USB imager than the one used to write the USB stick, to verify it.

Or, use every USB imager other than the one used as the writer -- to perform multiple verifications...

Perhaps one would find interesting discrepancies in some, but probably not all, USB imaging softwares -- that way...

Anyway, this one seems to deserve some points for being quite close to as simple as possible, with as minimum dependencies as possible...

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Post by mbroncano »

mig39 wrote: post #6
mikece wrote: post #2

balenaEtcher has spyware? The size versus Etcher -- 256 kb to 210 MB -- makes this worth checking out!

balenaEtcher has advertising for sure. Not sure about spyware.

It’s debatable whether there’s an actual difference nowadays.

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Post by CyberDildonics »

rvz wrote: post #3

YES. This is the replacement open-source GUI USB imager app I have been waiting for. > 500KB vs 210 MB Essentially this is a 99.99999% reduction of disk space and run-time usage with the same functionality which really puts its electron garbage counterpart to infinite shame. There is no contest here. Feel the satisfying moment of removing this 'balenaEtcher' bloatware and replace it with a true, efficient and magnifi…

I can't agree more. Using electron to make a simple program into a 200MB behemoth just so you can draw a window and some text with javascript is a slap in the face to your users.

The binary size on windows is actually only 268KB

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