Posted by Etcher is an interesting bootable USB creator that was made by Balena. One of the main advantages of Etcher is that it’s cross-platform, which allows you to install this software on any OS that you want. Besides that, any OS can be flashed through Etcher, with an accent on various Linux and BSD distributions. There are over twenty Linux and BSD distributions that Etcher has built-in support for, but there shouldn’t be any problems with loading a Linux or BSD distribution that wasn’t mentioned on the website.
As long as the distribution has support booting from a USB drive, you will probably be able to create create a bootable USB without a problem. Other distributions might require extra modification before they can be booted from a USB drive, overall, creating a bootable USB through Etcher will work in most cases and satisfy the majority of your booting needs. Just like some of the other bootable USB creator software on the market, Etcherg is open-source and can be found on Github, so anyone interested can have a look at the code.
Etcher isn’t hard to use and the process will be very straightforward in most cases, but any potential problem that can occur can probably be fixed by using the command line option. All command-line options can be found on the Etcher Github page. Thus said, any issue can be fixed with a line of code even if you aren’t all that into programming, the developer, Geza Kovacs, made all potential options available on the Github page of Etcher. UNebootin perfectly represents the concept of Unix philosophy: An application that does one thing that does it perfectly.
Unfortunately, you can only put one OS on the USB drive through BalenaEtcher, unlike Rufus, which can be used to put multiple instances on multiple devices. An important feature of Etcher is that recognizes all of the USB drives that are currently inserted into your PC or MAC, this makes the whole process of flashing the USB drive much faster. It also makes the user much less prone to a mistake as it narrows down the choices that need to be made by the user. Besides detecting the drive, you can select the version of the OS you want to install, its version, navigate to the ISO image, and write down how much space you want to reserve for your installation.
Windows, Mac, and Linux users can find the download for Etcher on the website, while Linux users can also use their terminal to download it. In a few lines, Etcher will be installed, and it won’t even take longer than a few minutes. Even though the interface itself is very easy to understand, the whole application looks very old, which some people don’t like. But what’s more important is that behind the ugly design, the application works flawlessly. Beginners shouldn’t have a hard time with Etcher, but it was indeed made for advanced users that have the knowledge and need for flashing various Linux and BSD distributions.