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When I first heard of it I thought it was some kind of a joke on the current state of desktop software, and a rather tasteless one at that. Then it was recommended to me where I was studying...

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Unfortunately, Etcher is a perfect metaphor for the state of "modern" technology in general. Inefficient to it's core.

it burns my microsd cards way faster than dd, what do you mean "inefficient to its core"?

I highly doubt that it's faster than a dd with proper blocksize. With inefficient I mean that it's an Electron application.

Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware, $ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal choice

Edit:noticed this is sort of a repeat answer, leaving it so the people saying its slow can copy/paste and try it out.

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