When comparing SUSE image writer vs Rufus, 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 SUSE image writer is ranked 11th. 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 Drag and drop image
Drag and drop from file explorer a novel way to select iso, don't need to navigate all the directories again to select an image.
Pro Simple
Nothing extra. Auto detects removable drives. Just select the .iso
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
Cons
Con Lacks advance features/options
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