Bootable USB Creators for Linux

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  1. Ventoy icon
     383 likes

    Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    4.8
    Excellent65 reviews
  2. balenaEtcher icon
     654 likes

    Ideal for creating bootable USBs and SD cards, ensuring safe, cross-platform use. Open-source, lightweight, and portable with a user-friendly interface.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    3.5
    Good71 reviews
  3. UNetbootin icon
     759 likes

    Cross-platform utility to create bootable USB drives or Live USBs, with a built-in downloader for Linux ISO images and rescue disks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
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    3.5
    Good19 reviews
  4. MultiBootUSB icon
     73 likes

    MultiBootUSB is a software to create multi boot live Linux on a removable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin but many distros can be installed, provided you have enough space on the disk.

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    • Windows
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    4.2
    Very Good6 reviews
  5. iVentoy icon
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    With iVentoy you can boot and install OS on multiple machines at the same time through the network. iVentoy is extremely easy to use, without complicated configuration, just put the ISO file in the specified location and select PXE boot in the client machine.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. WoeUSB icon
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    WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501 s WinUSB.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. SARDU icon
     37 likes

    SARDU (short for Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) creates a multiboot all-in-one USB drive, CD or DVD for free (personal and non commercial use). Hard disks, external hard disks and all removable media are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. A tool to create a bootable live USB drive with an edition of Fedora. Not only can Fedora Media Writer write an image to your flash drive, it can also download it for you. It offers official editions (Server, Workstation), Fedora spins (KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce Desktop, Cinnamon...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  9. Popsicle icon
     3 likes

    Write an ISO or other image to multiple USB devices all at once. Easily preparing a bunch of flash drives of your favorite OS with just a couple of clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  10. mkusb icon
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    (Straight up rufus for Linux users ) The mkusb tool was developed to make it simpler and safer to create boot drives with the method to flash or clone an iso image or a compressed image file. It is using dd under the hood.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. Bootqt icon
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    Bootqt is a simple app for making a bootable USB drive from an ISO or IMG file. It is written in Python and uses Qt technologies to provide an easy to use graphical user interface.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  12. Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
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