Ventoy
Close matchFreePrepare the stick once, then add installers by copying ISO files onto it. Also runs on Windows, so you can use it before you switch.
Does Rufus run on Linux?
Verdict: No
No. Rufus runs on Windows only. That matters less than it sounds, because Rufus is usually the tool you use on Windows to make the Linux USB stick in the first place.
Akeo builds Rufus for Windows 8 and later on x64, x86 and ARM64, and there has never been a Linux version. The project has no plans for one.
For most people this is a non-issue. Rufus is the last Windows program you run before switching. You use it to write a Linux installer onto a USB stick, you start the computer from that stick, and by the time Linux is installed you have no further use for it. If you later want a second Linux installer, Ventoy does the same job and also runs on Windows, so either tool can be used from whichever machine you still have.
Once you are on Linux, writing an image to a USB stick is built in. GNOME Disks, already installed on Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint, can write an image file straight onto a stick. Ventoy goes further and turns one stick into a menu of several installers you add to by copying files across.
What you lose are Rufus's Windows-specific extras, such as its options for how a Windows installer is put together. Those only ever mattered while you were making Windows media, and you would need a Windows machine for that anyway.
What to use instead of Rufus
GNOME Disks
Different way of workingFreeAlready installed on most beginner systems. It writes an image file onto a USB stick, one image at a time.
This doesn't have to stop you
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Rufus. Everything else you do can move.
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