Alternatives to Fedora Media Writer

A tool that downloads Fedora images and writes them to USB flash drives. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Fedora Media Writer.

  • balenaEtcher

    Writes an OS image to a USB stick or SD card, verifies every byte, and refuses to target your hard drive.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    balenaEtcher is a free, Apache-2.0 image writer for Windows, macOS and Linux that verifies writes and hides system drives, but does not download images for you.

  • Rufus

    Writes a bootable USB drive from an ISO, and can strip the Windows 11 install requirements while doing it.

    FreeOpen sourceWindows

    Rufus is a free, GPL-3.0 Windows-only USB writer for any ISO, with filesystem choices, checksums and BIOS or UEFI options, but no Fedora image download.

  • USBImager

    A minimal cross-platform app that writes compressed disk images to USB drives.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    USBImager is a free, MIT-licensed minimal writer for Windows, macOS and Linux that writes compressed images without unpacking, but it has no download or restore feature.

  • Impression

    A simple GNOME app for writing disk images to USB drives to make them bootable.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Impression is a free, GPL-3.0 GNOME app for writing any disk image to a USB drive, Linux only, with a minimal interface and fewer options.

  • Popsicle

    A Linux utility from System76 that writes a disk image to several USB drives at once.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Popsicle is a free, open-source Linux tool from System76 that writes one image to several USB drives at once, but has no image download feature.

  • UNetbootin

    Writes Linux distribution ISOs to a USB drive on Windows, macOS and Linux.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    UNetbootin is a free, GPL-2.0 writer for Linux ISOs on Windows, macOS and Linux with optional persistence, though it fails with several modern hybrid ISOs.

  • Ventoy

    Prepare a USB stick once, then boot any ISO by copying the file onto it.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Ventoy boots many ISOs from one stick by copying files onto it, with preparation on Windows and Linux only.

  • Raspberry Pi Imager

    The official tool for writing Raspberry Pi OS and other images to SD cards and USB drives.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Raspberry Pi Imager is a free, open-source writer for Windows, macOS and Linux that handles Raspberry Pi OS and other images, aimed mainly at Raspberry Pi use.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.