The prospect of using dd for imaging terrifies me to this day, primarily because you still hear horror stories of people trying to write a Linux installer to their flash drive to try out, and accidentally overwriting their main drive instead because they mangled /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb.
I don't know why dd remains the standard for so many tutorials when there are competent GUI tools that can take all the guesswork out of it. It's like a perpetual hazing ritual for new Linux users.
I don't know why dd remains the standard for so many tutorials when there are competent GUI tools that can take all the guesswork out of it. It's like a perpetual hazing ritual for new Linux users.