Lack of internet might be an issue for people you target Besides, if you really want to make Rufus more suitable for your usage, the source is very much inviting you to do it, so it's not like you don't have any options there. So, I'm going to have to repeat that the app is not designed for your specific usage pattern, and trying to make it closer to what you want would end up making it worse for a vast majority of users. Once again, your power user/sysadmin design goals are very different from the goals I actually have when it comes to designing the app. Also, even if I was happy to suddenly have everyone who downloads Rufus spend 10 times as long waiting for their download to complete (a small footprint, which is one of my actual design goals, tends to make for good user experience) who's gonna pay for the extra bandwidth costs? So that's way to suddenly make the application a lot less user friendly, when usage without an internet connection is the exception rather than the norm. The most needed thing imho is a link to the webpage to download the files, as that isn't easy to reach without looking at the source ( rufus.h has the links), playing guessing games (the local folder with rufus files is "rufus_files", so maybe the folder in the server is /files) or just downloading the whole site hoping you keep all stuff in there.Īnd "needs internet to work" when it really does not, is bad design in my book.Īre seriously positing that the application should be quite a few MB larger so that it includes all the files one might possibly need? IMO, bad design would be to give in to request that will penalize everybody by forcing them to go through an unneeded large file download, when in 85% of case, they wouldn't even need a single file from that extra download, and in the remaining 14.9%, not use more than a few 100KB. I genuinely don't expect a question, with an obvious answer, about the best way to slurp the files to be asked that frequently. Only one I use is the UEFI+BIOS boot one. Most look very very exotic to me and I'm a power user with a job in IT. So tell me, you were getting asked frequently about the various stuff you have in cheat codes? And "needs internet to work" when it really does not, is bad design in my book.īut I also raised some other points (lack of internet might be an issue for people you target), and after you voiced your sensible concerns I offered a simple 0-mainteneance idea to get that (bundle rufus + files in a zip with a bash script running regularly in the server itself).Īnd now I offer you to make this script myself (as I have downloaded your site so I know its folder structure, I also have some experience in scripting and linux server administration, although it's a very minor thing any decent linux user could do), and post it here for you to load it in the server on a cron job.ĭoes this make me a worthy contributor and not just a selfish asshole asking you to work for free? Kinda, my main motives are that I'd rather not have to workaround client-side when I could have it fixed server-side, so to speak. Let's be honest here: You are rather selfishly asking me to spend time, which I have in limited supply, just so you can avoid having to use httrack or any other directory slurper. That's why I thought it could be good to report this.Ĭonsidering that you have found your own workaround, I will close this request.Ĭould you add a line for this in the FAQ at least? For the more normal users it can be an issue. It is targeted at the single usage regular crowd, who have an internet connection on the machine they create the USB on.įYI, most power users and sysadmins are able to do tethering with their phones so it's not like this is a major issue for them (that's how I worked around the issue when in the field). If you drop the code dealing with this download-on-demand, you can even have less stuff to maintain, win-win. This can be done with a 2-line bash server-side script, and will require 0 mainteneance on your side. You can just bundle all files (rufus executable and these additional files already in the folder) in a single zip that is downloaded together by the user himself, instead of having the user download only rufus, and then have rufus download stuff on demand. That's beyond overkill, I wasn't asking for that. I'd have to add and maintain a web crawler a la HTTrack in Rufus
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