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Add to SafariWhen comparing Rufus vs Deepin Boot Maker, the Slant community recommends Rufus for most people. In the question“What are the best programs to make a bootable Linux drive?” Rufus is ranked 2nd while Deepin Boot Maker is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Rufus is:
Rufus finds your USB drive automatically. This minimizes the risk that you will accidentally format your hard drive.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Automatic USB detection
Rufus finds your USB drive automatically. This minimizes the risk that you will accidentally format your hard drive.
Pro GPT/UEFI Support with NTFS UEFI Support
Pro Simple but advanced
Has many options.
Pro Open source
Pro Very fast
Rufus is one of the fastest utilities in the category to complete create a bootable USB. Twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer and Windows 7 USB download tool.
Pro Safe
Zero ways to screw up.
Pro Size
Rufus is small in size.
Pro Multi-language support
Pro Can turn a bad pen drive to a bootable Linux drive
If your pen drive doesn't work anymore, you use this program to turn it into a bootable Linux drive.
Pro Beautiful UI
Deepin Boot Maker has a very beautiful UI
Pro Cross-platform
Deepin Boot Maker works on Windows, Mac and Linux
Cons
Con Only runs on Windows
Although it can install all flavors of imaginable distros on a key, the software itself only has one official Windows version, effectively excluding Mac and Linux users.
Con Only can install 1 distro / USB
There is no way to install more than one distro on USB
Con Doesn't always work
Won't work on all ISO images.
