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On 2024-04-22 7:05 p.m., DFS wrote:ha!On 4/21/2024 6:33 PM, Joel wrote: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.
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>Rufus for Winblows>
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That's one of those rare FOSS-for-Windows-only apps (along with Notepad++ and SumatraPDF and a few others I'm sure).
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Did some looking into Rufus:
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* stands for "The Reliable USB Formatting Utility, with Source""
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* he claims Rufus is the result of reverse-engineering an old
proprietary HP utility called HPUSBFW
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* he claims "as of 2023, Rufus gets downloaded close to 3 million times
each month"
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* 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.
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