Why does the startup disk creator suck so bad?

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On 15/09/13 17:43, Alan McKay 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.

I had the same experience. If you format the drive by hand first, it
works a little more reliable. But I still switched to use UNetBootin,
which has a much better user experience.

Regards
Sebastian
> 
> What's up with that?   I can't imagine it is something I'm doing wrong
> but you never know.    Could it be?
>