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I had to write a 100MiB "rescue" Linux image to a USB drive, and was offered two methods to do it: 150MiB "Etcher" and 1.1MiB Rufus.

Yes, the flasher was larger than the image I was trying to flash. The word monstrosity comes to mind. Rufus literally has more features. You may think the interface of Etcher is "better", but is it really 150x times better ?

it's probably written as one of those "universal" apps that's basically just a packaged browser

indeed... :-(

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