03-24-2025, 02:03 PM
(03-24-2025, 12:44 AM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: Use a better tool. BalenaEtcher should not be used anyway, because it is privacy-invading spyware.
What to use instead depends on the operating system you use on your computer, which you have not specified:
- On GNU/Linux, you have plenty of options. You can use dd from the CLI, or KDE ISO Image Writer, or GNOME Disks, etc.
- On Windows, if you insist on using that, try Rawrite32, it's simple (no Electron etc.), BSD-licensed, and free of ads and spyware.
- On macOS, if you insist on using that, you can use dd from the CLI, or possibly ports of the dd GUI frontends that you have on GNU/Linux.
I wonder why there are any people at all interested in the PinePhone who do not run GNU/Linux on their computer. If you are willing to run it even on your phone, where it is a totally niche option, surely you should have switched your computer to it years ago considering the state of desktop vs. mobile GNU/Linux.
I have run Manjaro on a laptop for a few years. Its a nice hobby but am simply not confident enough to daily drive it on my primary PC. I would love to. But I just am not there and thats really all there is to it.
And the Pinephone was just a nice little alt-comms hobby as well. Not a daily driver what so ever. At least not for me.