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Good luck with the binary blob!
For some more context:
https://lemmy.one/post/19193506
๐๐ seems like dd commands and gnome's MultiWriter might be the only ways to flash stuff on linux
Fedora Writer is another one (also works on Windows and maybe Mac), and there's also GLIM for multiboot, similar to Ventoy.
There's also Popsicle which is made by the folks over at System76.
Gonna look into GLIM
The linked article lists Raspberry Pi Imager as an option for writing Tails from macOS, and that is also available on Linux and Windows.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Though the site only shows how to install on Ubuntu, the GitHub repo for the tool does have an AppImage that should work on any distro.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/releases
I thought the binary blob thing was explained?
Basically UEFI booting requires shims and those need to be signed so the Ventoy author is re-using the ones from Fedora and OpenSUSE. This can be verified by comparing hashes, which the author of that comment shows how to do.
This whole thing seems to come down to people freaking the F out because they don't understand how the software works and the Author of the software is currently PO'd off at the community and stopped answering questions.
A reason was given but no source was provided, and their response to the question was very slow. I don't trust it.
The price of doing business with UEFI. There are ways around it but it works so fucking smooth. I'm down with it.