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What options are there for flashing to SD cards? Something that works on Mac too would be nice. A gui is preferred.
Plug your usb drive in and run lsblk to figure out which letter to use instead of x in /dev/sdx
sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress
EDIT: I totally didn't read your request. This is not gui or Mac based, but it still might help someone.
The comment said "SD Card" so it would be
/dev/mmcblk*I use a microSD to usb adapter and have 2 spinning rust disks. So it's /sdc for me, but i still always double check. Dd isn't called the disk destroyer for nothing.
I'm pretty sure mac, being based off freebsd, would include dd
Mac should have dd, ~~I'd assume lsblk as well~~ not lsblk though. There's fdisk though
Thanks for trying.
I'm not against terminal, but I'd just have to look up commands every time that I rarely use.