Format CDRW disks?

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Ari Torhamo wrote:

> 
> It's great that people help and send instructions to do this in the CLI,
> but I don't know which I would hate to do more - tell a Windows user who
> I'm in a process of "converting" to Ubuntu to go back to Windows to
> blank he's/her's CD-RWs or mail him
> 
> $ sudo umount /dev/cdrom
> $ cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom blank=all
> 
> and say "I now you just want to write to your CD-RWs, but if you just
> would open a thing called terminal - you'll find it in the...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ari
> 
> 


I agree here. This is one of the things that keeps me from using Ubuntu 
myself. Yes I know I can install K3b, but since the point of Ubuntu is 
to have a cohesive interface, for which the developers have chosen 
Gnome, I will hold off on  using Ubuntu for my main desktop until it all 
works properly.
I really wish I could program something more complicated than "hello 
world", because I'd LOVE to be able to fix things like this.

In the meantime, I will just say that Ubuntu is making great headway, 
but things like this are what is keeping it from being a great 
Windows->Linux conversion tool.

DT

PS. Don't get me wrong, I like Ubuntu and where it's headed. But it's 
not there yet. :)