replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

Nio Wiklund:
> Disks (gnome-disks) is also very simple and reliable.

It isn't. I use it frequently, and usually it loses its ability to 
format disks in certain file systems.


Nio Wiklund:
 > I think the price of replacing it for the moment far outweighs the
 > cost of fixing the few bugs it has to make it work well for everyone.
 > It happens to be an LTS, and it would be great to be able to
 > offer such an improvement in our next LTS release :-)

I feel this is right. Unetbooting has always been more resilient and 
versatile than Startup Disk Creator.


Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre:
 > Already looking after usb-creator, it seems like it's by far simpler
 > to just fix the bugs.

If the ship is sinking you can fix the holes, and no longer have to 
worry about bailing the water.

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