Who is still burning operation system images on DVDs?

>USB sticks exist

>>105972039

>>105971939 (OP)
I burn PS2 ISOs

>>105971939 (OP)
Less so than 9-10 years ago, but yes, on occasion I still do. I still have a few modern laptops and desktops that have optical drives.

>>105972039
They don't make write-once USB sticks.

>>105972039
>using rufus (indian malware) or ventoy (chinese malware)
heh, get botnet'd kiddo.

feels crazy how well imgburn just works 15-20 years later each time I use it

>>105972530
>shitdows
lmao
to make linux installation media i literally just format the usb with fdisk and then copy the iso

>>105972542

>>105972530
There are many choices.
>Etcher
>Win32 Disk Imager
>Raspberry Pi Imager
>Universal USB Installer
>YUMI
>ImageUSB
>USBImager
Wasn't there also a hardware USB disk that lets you load images on it for multi boot?

>>105972631
Etcher was confirmed spyware (not shitposting) by tails themselves back in February so no don't recommend that anymore

>>105972530
just use dd

>>105972663
All versions or just newer versions?

>>105972530
dd.

>>105972688
top choice desu.

>>105971939 (OP)
>still
I'm not sure I ever did burn software DVDs, actually.
Just jumped from CDs to flash.

>>105972631

To tell the truth, pajeets installing RATs in windows machines was expected, the CD-R and a comeback optical media readers are neccesary.

>>105972631
Balena etcher is spyware.

>>105972734
Nice, I wonder how many ppl bought this?

>>105972530
Does Ventoy even work?
Last I tried installing an OS on my brand new Thinkpad. It fucking crashes.

>>105972749
I often work with admins and service engineers and seen a lot of people with those (or older model)

>>105972530
How is rufus malware if it's open source?? Are you retarded?

>>105972802
Perhaps I should pick one up then. Looks like Amazon sells a newer version that you put an SSD in.

>>105972829
If you mean Mini then it's way overpriced for included ssd size and it only supports sata anyway. NGFF listed in specs only refers to physical size, it's not NVME speed.
On the other hand ST300 looks tempting, maybe I should upgrade my ancient Zalman VE-300 aka 2531
You can put SATA SSD in any of those, even the older usb2 / esata version.

>>105972631
The two choices he mentioned are the common ones to make windows bootable media, the windows iso doesn't ship with boot sectors because they want you to use the windows installation media tookit to make a bootable windows image. Ventoy and Rufus are open source alternatives.

>>105972921
Thanks for the info anon, this is informative.

>>105972943
>because they want you to use the windows installation media tookit to make a bootable windows image
You can do this using many other softwares though. Can't you?

>>105972541
Besides the odd time I still burn movies to dvd-r for friends, I use imgburn for 80% - 90% of my discs.

>>105972700
Since 2024 I think
Old versions might be fine

>>105972943
> the windows iso doesn't ship with boot sectors because they want you to use the windows installation media tookit
It probably doesn't ship with boot sectors because who is using BIOS in 2025?

>>105973228
I'm still rocking a version from 2017 desu. I find if something just works, I don't automatically update it. Same with Android apps.

>>105972760
Ventoy has been working very well for me. Just used it to boot multiple ISOs on a Surface today.

If I never found out about Ventoy I'd still be using Rufus. If I weren't for these programs, I might still be burning discs today.

>>105974397
Last disc I burned was Mint 21.2, how about you anon?