Off-topic: Bootable USB drive

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:49:58 +0200
Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:13:08 -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> >On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:51:35 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
> >> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:28:03 -0500, Dr. Mikeal Hughes wrote:    
> >> >Rufus      
> >> 
> >> Ventoy [...] IIUC rufus, https://balena.io/etcher and Co.
> >> aren't that comfortable  
> >
> >I haven't used windoze since XP was in its beta stage; however I have
> >used  https://balena.io/etcher to install an OS on a NAS when none of
> >the other tools could.  
> 
> Off-topic:
> 
> It's not important to the OP who probably just wants to download an
> executable to get the job done. However, I tend to build some packages
> on my own. Building the balena-etcher dependency electron (chromium
> based bloatware) on a SATA SSD with a Celeron G1840 2.80GHz dual-core
> and less than 8 GiB memory takes more than 19 hours. Building a
> bloated kernel, with all kinds of modules most of us never ever will
> need, takes less than 2 hours on the same machine.
> 

I haven't built a package this century. :) I use to when Slackware was
popular, when SuSE 4.2 came out, also with Debian 0.9 for a while on
their multi floppy and cd distros and a few other distros that rode
into the sunset. As I grew older and lazier and finally switched to
Ubuntu which is like the Windoze for Linux, install it, it runs out os
the box. sort of. :)