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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.