Would it be a good idea to recommend fedora media writer instead of UUI as in the documentation?
fedora media writer is a free software to flash images to usb. I find it to be a more modern than UUI, and last time I checked UUI does not have trisquel in the dropdown for installation. Not only does it work on windows, but it works on macOS and GNU/Linux. This could be an easier way for users to switch to trisquel. Anyways, here is the github page, download page, and wikipedia page.
https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter
https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Media_Writer
What are your thoughts about it? My only complaint would be that this is fedora branded.
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I use it, but including it in Trisquel would not be appropriate, as it promotes distros that do not follow the GNU FSDG. Perhaps a GNU FSDG-compliant fork of Fedora Media Writer could be made. That would be nice.
It only promotes fedora GNU/Linux, which is not fsf approved. I am just curious because people who would read the documentation should be interested in using trisquel, and would flash it instead of using the feature where it installs fedora on the usb. Nevertheless, I can see why we should not include it as the main way to install Trisquel.
Edit: Universal Usb Installer from pendrive does not have any GNU FSDG-compliant distros in the menu for installing and has unapproved distros there, so would this be kinda like fedora media writer?
I personally think that the dd command is worth learning and is just easier.
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress
Where sdx is the target disk
I agree. The problem is that I am not sure if it works on Windows, so that the users can switch. Even if it does, it is not very conveniant for noobs or beginners who never touched GNU/Linux before or a command line.
A downside of dd is that I don't think it includes any protection against accidentally writing to the wrong disk. There was a program on Windows that warns you if you try to write to a large disk, but I don't remember what the program was called and it might be proprietary.