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So they will fight the fraud, and all the saved money instead of going to dead people will go to living people, meaning people will get more under these programs?

Right? /s

I mean, I can believe they can do it, but it will probably be totally missing on launch, then utterly broken, and after 2 years of patches will finally work correctly.

Let me try: Lmao. Uses a computer, still does stuff the slower way because learning new things is too difficult.

To be serious, I am looking for the best solutions for my use cases, not adequate ones. Yes dd works perfectly fine and as you noted doesn't take long to use anyway. But just because it's fine doesn't mean other approaches aren't better.

A GUI tool can offer or take a list of download URLs for common distros so downloading isn't a separate step, it can check if the target device is a flash drive and not a hard drive by mistake, it can automatically choose the optimal block size for the device, it can verify the process by reading it back from the device, can show you the current filesystem, label, and usage of the target device to confirm, it can handle flashing to multiple devices at the same time with separate and total progress bars.

If I wanted to do all that on the command line it'd be quite a lot of commands or a sizeable script to write. Or I can use a simple dd command and lose out on all of the above. Either way it's a worse option. I will only use dd when a GUI tool isn't installed, or when I'm on a system without a DE.

It's faster to drag and drop a downloaded ISO and choose the target from a dropdown, than do it on a command line. And get a progress bar. As much as command line is usually faster, it isn't in this case.

Yes you can also get a progress bar on the command line but it's more typing again, and realistically you need to look the option up every time if you use dd once every 3 months.

Well yeah, these PC exclusives run perfectly on Linux PC's, and PC's with different form factors.

Well nuclear is great, so even "not much better" would be great.

Hmm, mount a network drive, or any drive? On Windows it's a few clicks in Explorer, but I'm not aware of it being that easy on any distro I used. Always had to go into /etc/fstab manually

Oh? And you’re the authority on that?

Well yes, I am the authority on my opinions, just like anyone else is on theirs.

I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others.

That's what I mean, I don't think it belongs next to Matrix or 12 Monkeys. It's a run of the mill Tom Cruise action film. Very enjoyable, but it doesn't break any new ground, in my opinion.

Oblivion? It was all right, and I recommend it, but I wouldn't call it a mandatory watch, it didn't have any special message

And that's a much better answer!

"Because it would require changes" doesn't answer OPs question. They want to know why wasn't it done like this in the first place, and why aren't we making the changes to make it happen now. Of course changing things would require changes.

It's like answering a "why are stop lights red?" question with "It wouldn't work because stop lights factories uses red bulbs and laws require them to be red".

If you have to do that in order to access something, then the access is restricted, isn't it?