Why does the startup disk creator suck so bad?

[Colin Law]

On 15 September 2013 16:43, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, I love, love, love Ubuntu but holy crow the Startup Disk
> Creator has been buggy as hell for quite a few releases now.  I've
> used it on numerous computers and releases - even VMs - and it always
> requires a half dozen executions to format the USB drive before you
> can install it.
>
> What's up with that?   I can't imagine it is something I'm doing wrong
> but you never know.    Could it be?

I have had a lot of problems with it too, so now use unetbootin as
suggested by Liam.  There is an open bug [1] reported four years ago
with many users still seeing it.

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/445766