• Richard@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    You don’t need any third-party software to create a bootable USB. On any Unix-like, you can simply write to the flash drive per-byte with the dd core utility.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      5 days ago

      Oh, ok.

      So anyway, arguably more than now, where every distro needs you to download an iso and use some application, most likely third party, since that is what every distro’s install instructions suggest, to make a bootable external drive on some device that already works, then manually boot into it.

      I swear if missing the usability forest for the tech minutia trees was free marketing Linux would dominate the desktop OS landscape.

      • catloaf@lemm.ee
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        3 days ago

        No. It is part of gnu coreutils. They’re part of any Linux distro.