ISO maker for Linux

[Neu B]

Howdy!

I am looking for a program that is equivalent to ImgBurn for Linux. I tried to look for ISO stuff in the software manager but I did not see anything like ImgBurn.

Would appreciate some guidance. Please keep in mind I'm a Linux rookie :-)

Thank you!

[metallithrax]

http://www.aimersoft.com/how-to-burn/imgburn-for-linux.html

[Neu B]

  On 06/11/2013 at 20:14, metallithrax said:

http://www.aimersoft.com/how-to-burn/imgburn-for-linux.html

Doh! I forgot about Wine. Yeah, that will make things a lot easier. Thank you Thank you!

[Boo Berry]

Looks like ImgBurn as a platinum rating in the latest 1.7 builds of Wine.

 

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4625

[Karl L.]

I don't recommend running ImgBurn in Wine. A native solution is much better for several reasons. The biggest problem with using any program in Wine that requires direct hardware access (particularly to block devices) is that Wine's block device emulation (pass-through) is far from ideal. Not only will the program suffer a performance penalty when burning discs, but it will probably also have trouble properly buffering as a result of the emulated I/O layer data must be passed through.

 

There are several graphical burning programs available for GNU/Linux, but few rival the power and simplicity of ImgBurn. If your top priority is simplicity, and you rarely need to adjust advanced settings - such as the filesystem, bootsector, hybrid partition table, etc. - then I recommend Brasero. If you would rather have a graphical disc burning utility which offers you the power to change virtually any configurable setting on your disc, then I recommend K3B.

 

The article metallithrax linked to alludes to this dichotomy between Brasero and K3B, probably due to their popularity, but it does not do a very good job of explaining why you should choose one over the other. It is true that Brasero is the default disc burning utility for the GNOME Desktop Environment whereas K3B is the default for the KDE Desktop Environment, but those are hardly the most important aspects of those utilities. Despite the fact that they integrate very well with their respective desktop environments, they will still perform their core functions with equal veracity in other environments. The key differences as I see them are listed in the paragraph above. I recommend that you read the highlights of each utility on their official websites if you want a better breakdown of what their authors feel their utility does exceptionally well.

 

I also find it somewhat dubious that the author of metallithrax's article suggests using ImgBurn through Wine at all - not to mention the fact that he listed it first. I would be extremely surprised if he tried any of the suggestions in that article himself. Most of the text in the article is directly copy/pasted from either Wikipedia or the respective utilities' websites (with no attribution, I might add), and the article contains no unique insight into the utilities themselves or the differences between them. I understand why running ImgBurn in Wine seems attractive. I used to use Windows, and ImgBurn was by far my favorite disc burning utility. However in my experience, the most reliable way to use it in Linux is to use ImgBurn to create a disc image (ISO) of the files you wish to burn, then use a native Linux disc burning utility (such as Brasero) to burn that image to a physical disc. For the reasons I stated in the first paragraph, disc burning in Wine rarely works, and even when it does "work", it often is not reliable. I used to be a Windows user who loved ImgBurn, and I now use Linux all the time. Trust me. Unlike the author of that article, I have tried this.

[Haggis Veteran]

As Above, i use Brasero and its easy as pie to use :)

[ichi]

If I need some advanced options I go for K3B, if I just need to throw some files in an ISO then mkisofs does the job just fine.

[srbeen]

  On 07/11/2013 at 05:57, xorangekiller said:

I used to use Windows, and ImgBurn was by far my favorite disc burning utility. However in my experience, the most reliable way to use it in Linux is to use ImgBurn to create a disc image (ISO) of the files you wish to burn, then use a native Linux disc burning utility (such as Brasero) to burn that image to a physical disc.

 

That my friend is by far the easiest solution. Get creative and make a shell script so you can right-click your ISO file and burn it with just that. Super easy. ImgBurn seems to work fine if you don't need a physical device. I ruined discs due to the poor performance.

[Max Norris]

Ditto the above -- there may be a lot of times where you'd rather have a Windows version of an application, but burner's shouldn't be one of them, not just for the techs reason xorangekiller listed but the native ones are actually very good. Using K3B myself, looks and feels more or less identical to what I'm using on my Windows desktop, no need to be messing around with Wine for that one, never mind losing some handy integration that going through Wine won't give you. There's a number of Windows programs I can't/won't do without, but personally I only try to use Wine as a last resort, for me native is almost always better regardless of which OS I'm on.

[ncc50446]

I use k9copy and k3b on Linux. I mainly use Windows, but when I need something burnt, I always switch to Linux to burn a disc. I find k3b a lot better than imgburn. Never once had a problem with k3b.