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Users have noticed (and went into an understandable outrage) that the program is constantly trying to connect to the Internet, and not just trying to ‘phone back home’ to check for updates (both of these programs have automated updates, by the way), but also trying to access some websites such as Facebook, Google Analytics and GoSquare, which are known to collect user data, even after the option “Anonymously report errors and usage statistics to balena.io’ was unchecked this is a rather big minus for Etcher.Īs for updates and support, they’re both being updated regularly, and have plenty of support available on their GitHub repositories, forums, FAQ, etc. Rufus was written in C++, while Etcher was made in Electron framework, which might be one of the reasons it has rather persistent bloatware the other one being its owner company – balena.io. Rufus is under GNU General Public License v3, while Etcher is under Apache License 2.0.
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#ETCHER OS BURNER SOFTWARE#
Let’s start with the basics: both of these are freeware, free-to-use open-source software pieces that have no hidden payments anywhere, they both have their respective GitHub repositories from which users can download the latest version, read documentation, get support from the developer team, as well as obtain the source code if they want to tinker with it.