News spread. Linux forums lit up. “Did you know Rufus now writes Linux ISOs with proper hybrid MBR?” “Rufus on Linux through Wine actually works perfectly now.”
They checked the box. Rufus wrote a secondary bootloader, a tiny piece of GRUB, and a persistence file that Linux would recognize. When the user booted that USB on their Linux laptop the next day, it worked flawlessly. rufus for linux
“Why doesn’t Rufus work on Linux?” a user would ask in a forum. News spread