Etcher if you need it

Etcher has become my method to burn an image to flash media.  With the sheer number of Raspberry Pi images that need to be written, I figured I should post about it.  Yes, this is filler.

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Etcher on Ubuntu

Pretty simple tool to use, and you don't have to look back and forth between a bunch of terminals to determine if the dd of your image is done.  If you're like me, there's usually at least 4 terminals open, 27 chrome tabs, maybe a couple VNC sessions, and probably a few web testing apps or protocol analyzers.  Skip digging around for the window that has the info you want on it and just use Etcher.  Another nice thing about it is that if you need to make multiple images (like security camera images), it is ready to burn the same image immediately.  It is pretty much just as quick as using a shell to dd an image.

The biggest shortcoming that I have noticed is the lack of tools to pull an image.  This somewhat makes sense, since the procedure is something that could cause some problems.  If you are not familiar with the procedure, the workflow is:

Insert card to make image from --> mount card --> verify files --> unmount card --> dd files to .img file.

To make a proper application that does this, it will need to look at storage space on the source and target.  It will also need to pop up additional windows to validate files from source prior to unmounting and duplicating to target.  It could get tricky to add these features to something designed for people without technical experience to push images to a card.

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Image ripping instructions

Etcher is a great tool for the majority of my pi OS needs.  Especially when it comes to reducing clutter with my terminals.