The “simple GUI” tool I keep seeing pushed Maker forums is Etcher. I needed to flash something from my work PC so I gave it a shot- 90MB of Electron bloat, while offering no extra functionality over dd . Plus, dd doesn’t advertise to me during the flash, and certainly doesn’t phone home to balena.
For folks just getting started or more comfortable with a GUI, I’d recommend giving USBimager[0] a look. It does exactly what’d you’d expect based on the name, it performant, and they have native apps. No affiliation, just a fan of a KISS app done right.
Woeusb is pretty decent on linux, and does the same uefi-ntfs magic that Rufus does, and that you'll need if you're burning a large ISO like recent Windows ones.
Though if it's just for ISOs, ventoy is fantastic, just drag and drop the file and no burning at all :)
> that you'll need if you're burning a large ISO like recent Windows ones.
I ran into this very issue when trying to make a bootable Windows 10 USB on macOS. No amount of fiddling with dd, unetbootin or Etcher resulted in a bootable USB. Despite being principled about it, I had to admit defeat and just pulled an old <4GB Windows 10 iso and flashed that to the stick.
I know I could have installed Linux through a virtual machine and got it done that way, but that seemed horrible overkill. Oh well.
You are right about exfat, what about NTFS? I suppose that's the issue though with macos diskutility no supporting NTFS out of the box. Honestly the other suggestion to use ventoy is probably the best option. Such a great utility
For folks just getting started or more comfortable with a GUI, I’d recommend giving USBimager[0] a look. It does exactly what’d you’d expect based on the name, it performant, and they have native apps. No affiliation, just a fan of a KISS app done right.
[0] https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager