Raspberry Pi Imager

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wove
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Raspberry Pi Imager

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation created a utility for installing images to various media types for use on the Raspberry Pis. It acts much like a clone of Etcher, and it may well be just that. It works quite will for burning images for the Pinebook Pro, the Pi as well as USB installers for laptops and desktops.

The Imager is available for Windows, Mac and there is a .deb file for Debian/Ubuntu based systems. Etcher is distributed as an AppImage, which makes it a rather large install, while Pi Imager is much smaller in size. It decompresses .xz and .zip files and writes them directly to the media and verifies the write after installation. It is an excellent Etcher replacement.
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Re: Raspberry Pi Imager

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Love Etcher as I use it with Windows quite a bit.
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Re: Raspberry Pi Imager

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It kinda makes me think it's probably a forked and heavily modified usbimager given the simplicity. I've actually switched to that over Etcher, it's a fraction the size, but has all the same features but without nearly as pretty of a UI.
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