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Rufus vs etcher9/21/2023 ![]() ![]() When it comes to features, they both share the key one: creating a bootable USB flash drive or SD card. The other one has to go through the standard installation process. It’s fast, it’s small and it’s very convenient, so that’s a point for Rufus. exe file from their website and run it right away. Rufus is a portable program, which means it doesn’t need to install – you simply download the. Just like in the case of Etcher, it probably means it now supports a wider range of file types that come from Linux-based file compressing tools. They both require Windows 7 and above and, despite the name suggesting it’s a Windows-only program, the latest patch seems to have brought it to Ubuntu, too, so that gives Win32 Disk Imager a slight edge over Rufus in terms of flexibility. System And Hardware Requirementsīoth Rufus and Win32 Disk Imager are pretty lightweight and have the bare minimum hardware requirements in order to work, such as 512MB RAM. ![]() Rufus’ support and documentation are huge, very resourceful, and offer solutions to all kinds of issues, ranging from the most mundane and simple to the very specific and complicated, code-related ones, while Win32 does have some support, but it’s not nearly as much not that it’s required to perform a simple burning or create the backup, but it surely does help a lot when developers are trying to regularly answer users’ inquiries. They’ve both been around for around a decade, with the difference of Win32 Disk Imager (aside from it being hosted on SourceForge) having only 2 and a half, so to say, developers, while Rufus has garnered a huge community and a lot of contributors on its GitHub repository, with support in astonishing 38 languages, while its counterpart has only a few localizations created by the community.
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