installing Linux from USB stick - which "USB creator" to use?

[Moltke]

Etcher is excellent. I've had one or another issues with a number of burning applications. Etcher is so good, I use it on our Shop USB drives. Never had one failure in all the time that I have used it. A remarkable record.

You're right [member=2]Jerry[/member]  Etcher is a fine piece of software, however, I did notice that my USB drive was kind of "locked" after; it showed under drives but I couldn't open it in thunar. I had to formatted in Windows - I don't know how to in Linux, it might be possible too, I think, I just don't know -  cause I couldn't use it anymore as a USB drive, this has never ever happened to me while using Rufus; I can keep on using the USB drive to copy and carry data with me even if a Linux, Windows system is on it. Do you know why that is? The USB drive seems to be ok with no harm that I know about, I'm just curious, what does exactly Etcher do that it let the drive in such a state? I google for it but I didn't find anything, maybe I was using the the wrong search terms/parameters. By the way, I would use Etcher again cause it works just fine and it's really easy to use, so yes, I'm not complaining but only asking out of curiosity.