I am shocked by this - the quote in below is very concerning:
“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”
Can’t see myself using this software anymore…
For some more context:
https://lemmy.one/post/19193506
💀💀 seems like dd commands and gnome’s MultiWriter might be the only ways to flash stuff on linux
Fedora Writer is another one (also works on Windows and maybe Mac), and there’s also GLIM for multiboot, similar to Ventoy.
There’s also Popsicle which is made by the folks over at System76.
Gonna look into GLIM
The linked article lists Raspberry Pi Imager as an option for writing Tails from macOS, and that is also available on Linux and Windows.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Though the site only shows how to install on Ubuntu, the GitHub repo for the tool does have an AppImage that should work on any distro.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/releases