Balena Etcher not working for me

Anyone else getting failure during verification when using Balena Etcher? I decided to follow the instructions on the wilki for the new image this time and downloaded Balena Etcher instead of using Raspberry Pi Imager. I tried two different computers, Windows 11 and Windows 10, downloaded multilple images mutliple times and tried different SD cards without luck. Reverted back to Raspberry Pi Imager and worked like a charm. Not sure what the advantage of using Balena Etcher is but Raspberry Pi Imager still works for me.

Be careful with Raspberry Pi imager, as that can overwrite the default WiFi and username settings, which the Kraken software expects. If Balena etcher is giving you trouble, an alternative is Win32DiskImager.

I had to uncompress the pi5 image to get it to burn. Doesn’t boot, but it burns