debloat replace the junk — open-source replacements for bloated vendor software

It's a huge, hundreds of megabytes electron app. What I need is USBImager, https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/usbimager/ a small, dependency-free, multi-platform, open source alternative.

Just use Rufus?

Just use DD

# find which device is your USB, let's assume mmcblk0 lsblk # copy image to block device (ensure it's unmounted first) cp file.img /dev/mmcblk0 # If you want a progress bar, do the same thing, but with pipeviewer: pv file.img > /dev/mmcblk0 # rsync might work too: rsync --progress file.img /dev/mmcblk0

If you specifically want a GUI, maybe try Popsicle (Rust + GTK): https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle

Fedora Media Writer KDE Image Writer

Rufus is bloated (2Mb) compared to USBImager (300Kb), has dependencies, can't handle compressed images on the fly. DD has no GUI and can't handle compressed images on the fly, can't verify write. cp file.img /dev/mmcblk0 - LOL, never do this, kids! Even DD needs special OS specific flags to be reliable. Popsicle, Fedora Media Writer, KDE Image Writer are bloated as well and have enormous dependency (full gnome with running udisk2-daemon; or KDE environment needed). Not sure if they can handle compressed images on the fly or if they can verify the write. USBImager is unlike these, it is multiplatform, multilingual, dependency-free, extremely small, single executable only (including all the decompressors, archive parsers, GUI kits, and over a dozen language translations).

you might be looking for ventoy

ventoy can't write an image to disk as-is. Instead it creates something else with it's own boot loader and menu, which does not support RPi, RISCV, PPC, etc. for example. It also can't handle compressed images and it can't verify write. USBImager is exactly what I'm looking for. I usually download a (probably compressed) OS image, then I want to write that on a removable storage with the smallest effort possible. Nothing less, nothing more.