I'm just going to throw this out there, because I abandoned SDC (usb-creator-gtk) ages ago in favor of unetbootin, and this thread prompted me to spend some time this afternoon checking it out and seeing if it was usable or not.
Keep in mind, this is my sample size of one, but I tried three ISOs: original 14.04, most recent 15.04 and todays 15.10 daily live. I also tried 3 different USB sticks, an ADATA 16GB USB3, a Sony 8GB USB2 and a generic 4GB USB2 stick. I use LTSs for desktop, thus I have a current and fully updated 14.04.3 system. I also, for grins, tried creating these using both a USB3 hub that I use mostly, and directly attached to a USB3 port on my system, an HP Z220 workstation. 1: Not all of the options via CLI seem to work https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1497431 2: I was, using three different sticks, three different ISOs on my updated trusty system, unable to create ANY successful usb stick: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1497445 3: I discovered that not only was I unable to create a usb stick using usb-creator-gtk, it also fails to clean up after itself after it fails to create usb sticks, leaving all sorts of mounted filesystems behind: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1497449 So, point is, I completely understand the frustration that the others feel, because I feel it myself, and have for some time, especially when usb-creator has over 450 open bugs right now of varying importance, 205 of which are still in the New state going all the way back to Lucid and still untriaged. I, myself, have 10 bugs filed against it, none of which were every moved beyond New or Confirmed. There appear to be 899 total bugs for usb-creator 424 in some open state (New, Confirmed, Triaged, Incomplete) 0 in In Progress or Fix Committed 229 in Fixed Released Today, when I want to try a daily image, I use a VM because I don't have to make a bootable usb stick to boot a VM. If I want to install to bare metal, I have to use unetbootin, because for all its flaws, it works far more often than not, and certainly more often than SDC, for me. And I can only base this on my one experience, because while you may, somehow, be able to build USB sticks all day long using this tool, I, generally, have had the opposite experience with it, going all the way back to pre-Lucid. So it would seem to me that there are quite a few open and reported issues for usb-creator that present the perception of essentially being ignored. In any case, the above is my personal experience, and I don't presume to speak for anyone else in this discussion, so grain of salt, YMMV, and all that. Jeff -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
