On Thursday, 25 September 2025 22:41:55 British Summer Time Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've never used anything other than 'dd' for writing .iso images to > flash drives. I never understood why anybody ever thought they needed > to write/use an app for that task. > > -- > Grant It could be because GUI applications don't need root access with udisks, so plain users can use them. Also they check if there is a removable drive inserted and refuse to proceed if none is available. With dd you remain wholly responsible for wiping your precious data by mistakenly pointing it to the wrong drive. ;-) PS. I mentioned I had used k3b to create a liveUSB. I don't think this was true - I was only burning liveCD/DVDs with k3b. On a Plasma desktop KDE's app-cdr/isoimagewriter is the tool to be used for USB devices.
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