linux seems to have weird issues with usb drives on some configurations. let me know of your findings.
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am I the only one?
Maybe not but this is for sure the first time that I read about an problem like that. Also never experienced it myself.
What are you using to flash the drive, what OS, what DE, what machine are you on and what are you trying to boot on?
What are you using? Try Rufus if you aren't using it to make the bootable media. Its my go to on Windows. Literally the GOAT.
Fedora Media Writer is the best
dd is but I'll allow a gui app.
I've found that depending on what distro/OS it is certain methods of burning the ISO don't work correctly, no clue why. Windows needs their official tool, so because of that i use a vm to burn it. I've also had linux distros that couldn't boot when dropping it onto a ventoy drive, and would only work when directly burning it with dd, so it might have something to do with what ISO you're trying to burn and how you're burning it.
@overcast yes, the only one.
If you want to be sure, go in a terminal and type umount /media/<stick> ( I do not know your path) and wait a bit. maybe mount it again there with mount /media/<stick> and have a look, if there is an error of a possible damaged filesystem.
After the files have copied I always run sync to be sure then I umount
Yes, this exactly.
full ass browser and telemetry for a simple disk imager.. balena ether shouldn't be recommended
Ventoy is even worse. What's wrong with Rufus if you're on Windows and the native distro tool on Linux/BSD?
ventoy is great for having multiple isos in one flash drive
Also great for embedding binary blobs that could tamper with isos