One of the biggest hassles for me, as a Linux user and hobbyist, has been creating bootable flash drives to use as live and/or installation media.
I don't use the GUIs. I download the medium, let's say to /tmp, with: wget https://whatever/mydistro.iso # insert USB drive # use df or mount to see what devices/partitions got mounted with that # insertion. assume here that it's /dev/sdu1, though it will more often # be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdd1, but I don't want to give # example dd commands with /dev/sdd in case someone just pastes it in. sudo umount /dev/sdu1 sudo dd if=mydistro.iso of=/dev/sdu bs=10M # note no '1' sync sync # pull out the USB drive I do a lot of them to give out to students, and I like to have it in my shell history.