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Interesting. Is this serious advice and if so, what's the new canonical command to burn an ISO?
Recently, I learned that booting from a dd'd image is actually a major hack. I don't get it together on my own, but has something to do with no actual boot entry and partition table being created. Because of this, it's better to use an actual media creation tool such as Rufus or balena etcher.
Found the superuser thread: https://superuser.com/a/1527373 Someone had linked it on lemmy
Huh thanks for the link. I knew that just dd'ing doesn't work for windows Isos but I didn't know that it was the Linux distros doing the weird shenanigans this time around
It is really informative! Spread the word.