Off-topic: Bootable USB drive

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:49:58 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <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 just use dd to copy ISOs to thumb drives or ARM SBC (for 'Pis and Beagles)
images to mSD cards.  I have never seen the point in a "fancy" GUI for this 
purpose, but guess, some people are just not able to use more than one finger 
to run programs -- eg, if they can't point at and click on an icon, they 
cannot run it.

OTOH, I built a cross compiler (host ARM Linux, target bare ARM MCU) on a Pi 2 
and it took the better part of *3 whole days*.

> 

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