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On 2024-04-22 7:05 p.m., DFS wrote:
> On 4/21/2024 6:33 PM, Joel wrote:
> 
> 
>> Rufus for Winblows
> 
> 
> That's one of those rare FOSS-for-Windows-only apps (along with 
> Notepad++ and SumatraPDF and a few others I'm sure).
> 
> Did some looking into Rufus:
> 
> * stands for "The Reliable USB Formatting Utility, with Source""
> 
> * he claims Rufus is the result of reverse-engineering an old
>    proprietary HP utility called HPUSBFW
> 
> * he claims "as of 2023, Rufus gets downloaded close to 3 million times
>    each month"
> 
> * he has no plans to port it to Linux or MacOS.  He thinks a Linux
>    version that has ~75% of the features of the Windows version would
>    take him at least 4 months of full-time work.

Rufus is an excellent utility. Unfortunately, even with Rufus, some 
Linux ISOs end up not booting because, for whatever reason, the people 
behind the distributions enjoy giving us a free preview of what to 
expect when running Linux.

-- 
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Christ is king.