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Replace Etcher in installation guide #3742
Description
What Happened?
Etcher is doing shady privacy invading stuff
Steps to Reproduce
https://tails.net/news/rufus/index.en.html
Expected Behavior
Move to something else
OS Version
8.x (Circe)
Session Type
Classic Session (X11, This is the default)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
Hardware Info
No response
Reacted by Douglas Silva and pentiumvsamd
Reacted by pentiumvsamd
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o-alquimista commentedon Dec 7, 2025
That page is now 404.
Is it about the "analytics" problem? I found this from their blog and this in their bug tracker. They said they removed it in version 2.1.2.
LuminousHustler commentedon Dec 20, 2025
I'll take a stab at writing a PR for this. Etcher doesn't do a great job anyways, and has left me with USB sticks that aren't bootable. The MacOS instructions may stay as Etcher because, I have no idea what to use as an alternative. Perhaps the installation instructions should be updated to use:
I'm a fan of popsicle, it's been fast, reliable, an it's available as an appimage so it runs on all distros