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What’s wrong with balena etcher?
It’s hundreds of megabytes for something that unetbootin, image writer, and others do in a couple of MBs.
Oh dang, is that the overheard of the software framework it uses? I think that’s what this thread was about but I can’t remember.
Yes, it’s built with electron. It’s a fancy web page and browser packaged as an app.