An Idea came to my Mind which I would like to suggest and discuss here. Fedora has the Fedora Media Writer. POP OS has Popsicle. So, I thought: Would it be a good Thing when Zorin would develop and own Boot-Stick Tool?
To have it preinstalled with Zorin OS could be a nice Idea I would think. If You want to create a bootable USB Stick, You wouldn't need to care what Tool You should use. You could simply take the Zorin one. I think, that this could be a nice Addition to the System to have that.
On the other Side: There are already good Tools out there. The named One's from Fedora and POP OS and Tools like BalenaEtcher, Gnome Multi Writer, Impression or Ventoy. So, You could bring the Argument, that a Zorin-own Tool would be ''yet/just another Tool''.
Because I wrote that here, it is obvious that I think, that it could be a good Thing. That is the Reason why I suggest that. But what think the Community about this? And what think the Zorin Team about it?
That's a nice idea . I'd certainly would try it if I'm on another distro and want to install zorin ,and a tool for creating bootable USB is right there ,next to download iso for instance.
Better yet ,wouldnt it be great if the iso is automatically added when you use the zorin tool ? I mean ,you plug in your USB ,hit create boot disk, and when it's done the iso is on already .
1 thing though ,would it work if you on a Windows pc ?
I think it would only make sense to have something like this if it's aimed at other operating systems. Not that it shouldn't work on Linux as well, but if the goal is to ease the transition to Zorin OS, this would need to be a must. Otherwise, I would have to agree that it becomes another tool that doesn't really bring anything new.
Something like that makes the Fedora Media Writer, too. You can use is for downloading a Fedora System and it will be written on the Stick. Only for non-Fedora Systems You need the ISO seperately to create the Stick.
A Windows Version would make Sense in the Concept of Zorin OS to switch from Windows to Linux. And - of Course - it should give a Version for Linux, too.
Popsicle works perfectly fine for me, I don't need anything else. And unlike USB flashers like Balena Etcher, who can literally brick a USB drive, Popsicle is safe, it does exactly what you need it to do, nothing more, nothing less, and most importantly, does the flashing properly, without bricking the USB stick.
Same here, it’s the best flashing tool under linux.
Balena etcher destroyed 2-3 usb sticks of mine, tried everything to recover it. With one stick it worked but after that it failed again. I still don’t understand why this sh*t tool is recommended. In windows Rufus is the best tool for flashing iso to usb.
I am sticking with Ventoy. It works the simplest. Basically what it does is create a boot partition, with a second partition that holds all your .iso's preventing the need to make separate boot media. Just drop your .iso onto your Ventoy created thumb drive, reboot, remembering to change your boot parameters in the BIOS beforehand and choose Ventoy to boot off first. It will then show you a menu of all the .iso's at your disposal to boot from in live mode. Clearly, only distributions such as Zorin and others that allow you to boot into a live desktop without installing will work, you wouldn't want to put a distro that goes straight to install.
I prefer Ventoy where possible too. When it won't work for a use case I would just as soon use dd commands to do the job because I don't have to search out and install something.
