On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 12:09 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
I think it's in *everyone's* interests for distributions to collaborate
where it makes sense. A decent USB writing tool is just a box all
distros should be checking, and which we're currently all not checking
while simultaneously wastefully spending separate resources on. A USB
writing tool is really not a big enough deal to be a 'selling point'
for a distribution, it's something we should just get together and
maintain collaboratively to be more efficient and avoid the situation
where we all have a half-assed tool that isn't maintained half the time
and so people wind up using unetbootin or Rufus, failing, and deciding
Linux sucks.
Hell, if we did it right, maybe we could kill rufus and unetbootin, at
least for Linux purposes. Some third party could do a build of the tool
with generic branding, and combining all the distro image lists. It
seems that third-party USB writing tools are going to exist no matter
what we do; if that's the case I'd much rather have one which was just
a build of sensible, dd-style code we have a hand in maintaining,
rather than the pile of crappy fail that is unetbootin.
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Adam Williamson
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