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Dave Zych
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Dave Zych's personal blog at davidzych.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about Rufus, a reliable USB formatting utility for creating bootable drives. The one comment criticises Microsoft's official Windows media creation tool rather than the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I make developers' lives easier. Father, husband, mountain biker. Senior Software Engineer at The Trade Desk. I blog about programming and technology.
What Hacker News says?
The official Windows media creation tool is a bit of an abomination. Primarily because it is slow and has very quirky requirements that it doesn't advertise and only checks for at the very last second. You download the tool and want to create a Windows 10 bootable USB, so you run the executable. Then you find out that it won't let you choose where to save the temporary ISO file that it wants to download. It's hardco…
Comment linking /install-windows-10-from-a-usb-flash-drive/
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