In order to help someone build an "open source" project that was built with windows-only proprietary tools, I need to install Windows on a computer at least for a while. I think I spent at least an hour trying to create bootable media on someone else's windows computer before finding a comment buried somewhere that the windows media tool just silently fails to work with sandisk thumbdrives, with no information shown.
Compare that to Linux iso images that can just be written to a USB drive and still work (thanks to H. Peter Anvin's work many years ago) and work just fine on those same sandisk drives.
