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		bluedino on Oct 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cult of dd (2017) > You'd think that after decades somebody would have made a handy tool for actually writing disk images as an end user. There are lots of tools out there for creating disk images/boot disks etc.

dale_glass on Oct 25, 2022 [–]

I mean as a standard tool in general usage. Somehow after decades of installing various distros, dd is still the standard thing to use.

bluedino on Oct 26, 2022 | [–]

Ubuntu's docs suggest using Startup Disk Creator

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#4-...

Fedora recommends using Fedora Media Writer, and other tools like Unetbootin are very popular.

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