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It's faster to drag and drop a downloaded ISO and choose the target from a dropdown, than do it on a command line. And get a progress bar. As much as command line is usually faster, it isn't in this case.
Yes you can also get a progress bar on the command line but it's more typing again, and realistically you need to look the option up every time if you use dd once every 3 months.
Lmao. Uses a computer, typing is too much. It took more typing to write your comment than to craft a tab-completed dd command, even if you had to call the help menu to refresh your available options, jus' sayin'
I get it though, the general public are scared of the big bad 'puter magic and need GUIs.
Tab complete? Just ^R that shit!
Shhh, that's too advanced. Besides, CLI is outdated and slower than GUIs, this is just insane behavior /s
I honestly didn't even need to specify tab-completed. It's still less typing than their comment unless your paths are miles long.