Never heard of etcher, used dd for more than 20 years. Your comment is strange to me. You have some kind of problem with "people who use dd" instead of the thing I haven't heard of?
I don't have a problem with people who use dd, people can use whatever they want, disk flashing doesn't really need to be organization-wide standardized.
But if someone asks me how to flash a disk, I'll probably tell them I use Etcher.
It's a FOSS Electron-based GUI tool for flashing disks, which has a few extra features like verification, hiding things that aren't removable disks so you don't accidentally overwrite /, a progress bar.... and that's about it, aside from ads for Balena's other products.
But it works, it's what pretty much every beginner tutorial says to use, I've never overwritten the wrong thing(Like I did one time with dd a long time ago), and I don't really have much reason to go looking for alternatives.
It's also what I consider the canonical example of something GUI fans love, but CLI enjoyers hate.
But if someone asks me how to flash a disk, I'll probably tell them I use Etcher.
It's a FOSS Electron-based GUI tool for flashing disks, which has a few extra features like verification, hiding things that aren't removable disks so you don't accidentally overwrite /, a progress bar.... and that's about it, aside from ads for Balena's other products.
But it works, it's what pretty much every beginner tutorial says to use, I've never overwritten the wrong thing(Like I did one time with dd a long time ago), and I don't really have much reason to go looking for alternatives.
It's also what I consider the canonical example of something GUI fans love, but CLI enjoyers hate.