I think your primary issue is impatience - never pull the stick without flushing cache - as doing so will most certainly ruin the content.
The terminal dd command has been proven over the years - only windows ISO do not work - for those you need woeusb (AUR).
For apps not yet mentioned popsickle and mintstick comes to mind - both in the Manjaro Repo.
Or Ventoy, this runs W10 as well.
That’s a reply that I usually get, but it doesn’t make the errors go away lol. I’ve tried every program suggested here except etcher. I will try that one next. They all have some reason or another that they just can’t work. For example, try to install Yumi from the arch repo. Tell me if it works. This is just a little experiment I’d like to run. I couldn’t get it to work, but then again maybe it’s just a version that is too old to work.
I’m also not taking the flash drive out before it’s finished. This is because thus far, I haven’t been able to get any of them to actually start the process. I got tired of fighting with it and just loaded up Rufus on windows 10 and it works great.
This is my overall experience with software from the repos. It’s hit and miss. If it’s a big popular program, it’ll work. If it’s small and maybe somewhat obscure, good luck. I use Pamac and I’m not doing anything special, I just install it and then launch it from the start menu. Many of them will open, but throw some error or another when you go to execute their main function. Some of them never make it that far, just crashing immediately.
If you don’t find a suitable GUI package working for you then maybe the CLI approach using the dd command as mentioned by @linux-aarhus could be a solution:
This package is a pre-compiled binary, from 2015, so no thanks, also:
jonathon commented on 2018-03-19 08:59
Given the upstream page still suggests running the Windows version of YUMI 2.0.5.4 under WINE is it time for a deletion request? Or is making this package use WINE an option?
I just used Suse Image Writer recently and it worked so I don’t know, maybe try to start from terminal and see the errors it throws? If you tested everything people suggested I guess issue is on your end so maybe try to find some errors on your side?
Howdy!
Install gnome-disks ( sudo pacman -S gnome-disk-utility ), launch it, select your USB, then click the menu button on the top right corner to finally select “restore disk image”.
-> Select the .iso and hit restore!
Have a wonderful day!
dd has never failed me…
Actually aarhus beat you both lol
Too big of a newb, don’t know how to use that. Although I’ll look it up and see if I can make it work. Thanks to all for the replies!
maybe look at that ^
Ended up just doing it on windows, where everything worked fine. Back to that whole “just works” thing.
No, rather back to "I know how this works and I don’t have the patience to learn that."
Just for the sake of comparison, if you were to put me at the keyboard of a Windows PC, I wouldn’t know how to do squat, because I don’t use Windows, and I find it an illogical operating system. In GNU/Linux, everything makes sense, and it does what I tell it to do, not what it might think I mean.
You put Manjaro on your computer. That means that you were looking for something other than what Windows has to offer, and if that is the case, then you also owe it to yourself to take out the time to understand and learn how to properly use GNU/Linux. Otherwise there’s no point.
Nobody’s going to demand that you’d become a skilled IT specialist, but there’s a certain responsibility involved nevertheless. 99% of the problems we’re seeing here at the forum are from Windows users who are expecting GNU/Linux to be exactly the same thing as Microsoft Windows but with a different name and a different look. Well, not so ─ it’s an entirely different operating system design, and for that matter, a very logical, well-documented and transparent one.
I was going to comment on this, but you said it all.
Well that’s fine, but they did set up a “software center” in the form of pamac. Your typical app store layout found across multiple operating systems, not just this one. Those do generally all work the same. You open it, you type in or select the software you want to download/install, and you click on it or otherwise tell it to go. It goes. Now it’s on your computer, and you tell it to open, just like you tell every other piece of software to open. And most of them do. It’s a great thing.
Only this particular one (or ones) don’t. That means they’re failing to fulfill their function as intended. That’s not my fault, it’s not because I’m a new linux user, or that I’m more familiar with windows. It wouldn’t have worked for someone who had never used windows, or any other OS. It wouldn’t have worked for someone who is experiencing manjaro as their very first operating system.
There isn’t some extra thing I’m supposed to be doing here. The suse image writer software even opened up. It was trying to work as intended. It didn’t. If you were to sit in front of this computer, you’d have the exact same experience. That said, I’m not saying that there’s not something wrong with my computer/install. Other people seem to have the programs open up and work fine. Mine stalls out on 5%. I do not know why. I really shouldn’t have to know why, not when it was laid out the way it is. For a 3 click installation and then you’re up and running. Again I’m not somehow blaming anyone for my computer problems, I’m just trying to figure out why. I have the same problem with VLC and Kodi. Kodi simply never opens (even on a brand new, fresh install of Manjaro) and VLC will just crash half the time. I switched to SM Player, and now all these problems are gone. So I’ll just use SM Player instead.
I know not everyone thinks this about new users like me, but these types of replies always remind me of something - In the video game industry, some gamers will have crashes or slowdowns that say… 60% of the other gamers just aren’t experiencing. Then others just won’t understand how this can be happening. After all, it’s not happening to them, so they must be making it up, right? I can read through this forum, and find 100 other problems that I’m just not having. Things that I’m using/doing, that other people are having some form of problem with. But not me. These are just the problems I am having.
You refuse to do what we suggest to help you troubleshoot, so it’s on you at this point, no matter how you try to twist the story.
The issue is definitely on your side, all these programs suggested perfectly work for everyone but you.
Then explain why Kodi won’t start on a brand new install? Right out of the gate, it won’t start. So no, you’re wrong. There’s no twisting that.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=210745
Granted, that’s linux mint. Goes to show you other people have had the exact same problem I’m having, in the past. You need to learn that not everyone has the same rosy experience that you have. I’ve also said before that as I’m very new, I don’t generally understand command line help. I have to just sort of figure it out as I go, which takes time and google.
