Creating Bootable UFD OS Installer Part 1: balenaEtcher

As computer enthusiast, we really want to try various computer OS for various reasons, whether we want to upgrade, are bored, disappointed, or are looking for new challenges. On the internet there are many computer OS images that can be downloaded, write to CD/UFD and to try them immediately (Live CD/UFD for various Linux distributions) or just as an installation media (MacOS & Windows). 

On Linux apart from internal utility from the OS such as USB Image Writer from Linux Mint, there are few applications to help you write OS images such as balenaEtcher and Ventoy

balenaEtcher

balenaEtcher or simply Etcher Is a single ISO image flasher/writer application to UFD AND ALSO TO MEMORY CARDS for Linux/MacOS/Windows. This application is an alternative to the Rufus utility on Windows which functions more or less the same.

Here's How:

1. Download the app & extract it in your preferred folder
2. use this on terminal inside the extracted app folder:
   $sudo chmod 777 *.AppImage
3. Run the AppImage file 
1. eg. $./balenaEtcher-1.7.9-x64.AppImage 
   
2. Select Image to write, device to write on to, flash!
3. You can now boot the UFD

Reference: https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Part 2...