Brasero does the CD burning job in GNOME
My system76 desktop machine came with a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive that I’ve finally got around to trying out. I wasn’t too concerned about how it would work with GNU/Linux, since I suspected CD and DVD burning should be relatively well-supported by now. Of course, you never know until you try.
I’ve been chugging along with getting my backup regime in place and it’s only a matter of time before I’ll need to start making DVD backups on my GNU system. I’d taken a peek at the built-in burning software in Ubuntu, and it hadn’t looked very impressive. I was looking forward to diving in and resolving my uncertainty about CD/DVD management, which is a key part of my backup strategy.
I don’t use multisession CDs very often, but I like to use them with a CD-RW for my wife to bring some spreadsheets from home to work. There’s about 15MB worth of data, and it’s easiest to keep adding it to a CD. We also get to have a few generations of backups hanging around that way. So yesterday I took the opportunity to try burning the data on the GNU machine (that she uses) instead of copying up to the Windows machine where I regularly burn stuff.
The first thing I discovered with the included software is that it doesn’t handle multisession CDs. That wouldn’t be a complete showstopper, if I could blank the CD and start over, but I didn’t see a way to do that either. It appears that the Nautilus integrated built-in software software for data CD/DVDs is awkward and limited. (I suspect much like the built-in burner software in Windows which I’ve never even tried.)
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