This is a heads-up for anyone wanting to use the balenaEtcher app image with Ubuntu.
The balenaEtcher app image has a single dependency: fuse. If you install this package using apt install fuse, you will irretrievably break Ubuntu 23.04 and 23.10, and possibly other releases.
Is this the context? Says here that it removes a bunch of packages, so wouldn’t apt ask about that?
Anyway, of course Ubuntu contains a perfectly fine image writer app by default
Yes, that’s the bug. So, since 22.04.
It does, but it only opens .iso files.
Incidently, I use Timeshift, so was able to recover my system. However, I did try to manually repair, but the damage was so widespread that it was futile … especially on the command line.
But didn’t it ask when running apt install that it would remove lots of packages?
Right, I forgot
Obviously there’s a problem there, but I’ve always used dd to create disk images on linux/Unix. Been around probably before the etcher developer was born 
I only use etcher on screwy systems like windows
Me too.
Discourse does not like the option.
You can do “lsblk” to see, what device your USB stick is.
In future, I will use dd … being lazy, so I thought I’d use balenaEtcher, which was already in my Apps folder, but clearly not used since before 22.10.