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tcher, SUSE Imagewriter or Gnome Disks are the three most widely used utilities (not counting dd) for writing ISO images on to USB thumb drives. You’ll need to do this when trying out another Linux distribution on a bare metal setup instead of a VM. However, we’ve got a handy little application that has some cool advantages over existing tools.
USB Imager provides a minimal GUI for doing a single job: flashing target USB devices, and it’s a crossplatform tool that provides the same experience under Linux, macOS, Windows and Raspberry Pi. However, while most other competitors support only ISO images, USB Imager has a longer list of supported input files. It can transfer any file you throw at it, but of course we were curious to test the program with such formats as . img, .bin and .raw, and they were all handled correctly.