When comparing Rufus vs Easy2Boot, the Slant community recommends Rufus for most people. In the question“What is the best software for creating Live USB (from ISO files)?” Rufus is ranked 1st while Easy2Boot is ranked 5th. 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.
Specs
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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 Includes Ventoy
Pro Direct UEFI-booting from ISOs, WIM files, Win Install ISOs, VHDs, .imgPTN files
Secure Boot works for most payloads.
Pro Supports multiple Secure Boot UEFI by 'switching-in' different image files
Pro Easy2Boot is a multiboot USB drive
Rufus and Etcher are single-boot.
Pro Can Secure UEFI64-boot and run non-secure ISOs/payloads
Pro Over 1 million downloads
Pro Highly customizable boot menus
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 Not Open Source
Author amalgamates his content with the content of others. It's not Open Source and may well have closed source and copyright restricted content.