friend of mine had this pretty looking Asus laptop that needed a total reinstall, and so in the process I needed to find something to build a Windows 10 bootable USB. I remembered a nice tool called WinUSB but it was abandoned. Well, it's been adopted again, and you can find out about it here

It was a bit tricky following the instructions to build the package, I used the advised ubuntu/debian build-a-package method, which I am not that familiar with. But it came out in the end. This was precisely what I did (garnered from my shell history), I am using Ubuntu 14.04.5:

sudo apt install devscripts equivs gdebi-core
git clone https://github.com/slacka/WinUSB.git
cd WinUSB
mk-build-deps debian/control
sudo gdebi winusb-build-deps_1.0.11_all.deb
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
apt install gksu p7zip-full
dpkg -i ../winusb_1.0.11_amd64.deb

The version number may be different if you are reading it some time later than when I write it so check what the filename is with ls and look for the file that has the same except the version.

By the way, that laptop is based on an Intel atom system on chip and the power management and sound cards both don't work under any version of Linux. I highly recommend if you want to run Linux never ever use anything atom. Celeron, Core, AMD, nothing is as irritating as Atom.

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