I feel like the main problem with balenaEtcher is that it requires downloading 150 MB, for a software that many people will use only once before a reinstall.
If you're in a rich country, you might hardly notice, but for poorer countries, this is an insane ask, especially if it just improves convenience mildly.
But yeah, ultimately any such tool is going to face the problem that no matter how easy it is to use, you need to first install it, which needs to be explained.
The usage of dd
also needs explaining, but you don't need to install it.
Well, and another factor is that dd
has been around since the dawn of time. Software like balenaEtcher tends to go unmaintained after a few years, at which point any documentation referencing it, will need to be rewritten. And it's usually rewritten to reference dd
instead, before a new convenient software emerges...
There's a condition where people may sweat less or not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis
Not as great as it might sound at first...