On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 03:28 PM, Mario wrote:

can a bootable USB thumb drive be created by burning the ISO using any burning program?

Yes, and I use Rufus to create these routinely.  I prefer to download the ISO and keep it in case I want a second (or Nth) bootable USB drive.

Lots of folks prefer to allow the Media Creation Tool to create the bootable USB media.
 
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