MediaWriter vs multibootusb

MediaWriter

Fedora Media Writer - Write Fedora Images to Portable Media (by FedoraQt)

multibootusb

A collection of GRUB files and scripts that will allow you to create a pendrive capable of booting different ISO files (by aguslr)

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MediaWriter		multibootusb
	Project
9	Mentions	1
673	Stars	549
0.7%	Growth	-
7.7	Activity	0.0
20 days ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
C++	Language	Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

MediaWriter

Posts with mentions or reviews of MediaWriter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-10.

Fedora Media Writer checksum?
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 10 Oct 2022

According to the official Github page for Fedora Media Writer, it does:
Noob Question: Is there a need to verify ISO if I downloaded file via Fedora Media Writer
1 project | /r/Fedora | 2 Sep 2022

Fedora Media Writer's repository contains this document on the subject: https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter/blob/main/CRYPTOGRAPHY.md
Fedora Media Writer has a very broken UI when using spanish
1 project | /r/Fedora | 25 May 2022

That's because it has been fixed already. The translatable string changed in this commit, and the translation tool apparently automatically mapped the old translation to it with a "Needs Editing" tag.
Release 5.0.0 · Fedora Media Writer
2 projects | /r/linux | 9 May 2022
Fedora 36 is GO! Release: 2022-05-10
1 project | /r/Fedora | 5 May 2022

PS: for the ones using the official Fedora Media Writer to create a bootable USB from an .ISO... There's currently a new version in the making which is supposed to launch together with Fedora 36 - you can get preview-builds here: https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter/releases and some additional info on it here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/L2QQJ5CNJOQ7ZGKXPUPVZ7DU5UJ6BVFO/
Chrome OS Flex is not available to be installed using Linux while being based on Linux(Gentoo). Ironical.
1 project | /r/linux | 18 Feb 2022

It is: https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter/releases
Building an Alternative Ecosystem
5 projects | /r/SolusProject | 14 Sep 2021

Fedora Media Writer works fine for me. https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter
Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2021

For anyone complaining that there is no nice GUI for dd on Linux and macOS, I recently discovered Fedora Media Writer [1] which works great for this job. Despite it’s name, it can be used with any ISO just like dd.
[1] https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter
Reviving someone's old FOSS Project. Hope to have a release soon! ;)
1 project | /r/linux | 26 Apr 2021

FWIW, the Fedora Media Writer works with any distribution's images, just select the "custom image" option and point it to whatever ISO you have.

multibootusb

Posts with mentions or reviews of multibootusb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-06.

Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MediaWriter and multibootusb you can also consider the following projects:

Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.

NomadBSD - Livesystem based on FreeBSD

unetbootin - UNetbootin installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive

SimpleDiskImager - A simple tool for writing USB disk images.

xbox-iso-vfs - Mount Xbox ISO files on Windows

adwaita-qt - A style to bend Qt applications to look like they belong into GNOME Shell

Slint - Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]