ISOs Explained + four programs to make Linux boot media

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ISOs Explained + four programs to make Linux boot media - Lemmy.World

I really don’t get why I should use anything else than dd
Not everyone likes to use commands for something as trivial as this, its nice to press a couple buttons and wait for it to be done vs learning how dd works and what arguments to use etc.
My favorite way to create a boot media is simply to use cat. No arguments, no shenanigans just a cat into the device : cat debian.iso > /dev/sda
iirc there was a reason you should use dd instead of directly copying the data, I think something to do with device block alignment or something?
That could be possible but for the moment I didn’t encouter any problem with cat. I think I’m going to stick with it for the time being.