It allows the OS image to be chosen, downloaded and written to an SD, which replaces browsing a page, downloading and running dd.
Where the value should be is in the advanced options that can set up ssh, default username, WiFi SSID, etc for headless operation (if they work now), which would otherwise have to be done by creating config files on the FAT partition after writing the image.
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Did I misunderstand or has this basic config stuff become some kind of secret sauce? That you can't easily enable sshd for example by just editing a text file inside the image?
My only remaining Pi runs Ubuntu and I think I configured that via the serial console but I'm really not sure, it's been a minute.
I think you can. actually. Its just that noobs usually boot to a keyboard ans screen, or if they haven't one,. need a client computer GUI...
I know...
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