If you have been trying to create a Windows 10 bootable USB stick on Ubuntu, using the popular WoeUSB tool, chances are you are getting stuck at downloading uefi-ntfs.img from github.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 64:ff9b::8c52:7004, 140.82.114.4
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|64:ff9b::8c52:7004|:443...
This time-out error is due to an IP issue with the way the Wget command is trying to get the uefi-ntfs.img file from Github.
"wget --directory-prefix="${download_directory}" https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img"
To fix this, you can just add a -4 after the wget so that wget resolves the GitHub address properly. However, since you can't manually change this command when running the WoeUSB tool ( unless you go into the source file and then make a new version of WoeUSB ), we will have to find another way.
Easy Fix - Use the alternate WoeUSB-ng software.
WoeUSB-ng is a python rewrite of the original WoeUSB. I can tell you this variant do not have the above issue we faced when creating a bootable Windows USB stick.
How to Install WoeUSB-ng in Ubuntu? Enter the following commands
sudo apt install git p7zip-full python3-pip python3-wxgtk4.0
sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng
Now run the WoeUSB-ng UI. Select the ISO file and correct USB drive and go ahead with your installation. ( Note: Use an NTFS drive instead of FAT as the latter has a 4GB limit and the processor will fail as there is a file in the ISO that is larger than 4GB ).
Tested on: Ubuntu 20.10.
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