14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical developers will talk about redesigning and renaming the Startup Disk Creator during the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit.
For some strange reason, this particular application has remained the same for several editions, even if it's a very important part of the Ubuntu ecosystem. This is likely to change at the next Ubuntu Developer Summit.
“The Startup Disk Creator (SDC) in its current form has a suboptimal work flow, displays too many unimportant information to the user and requires too many steps to actually create a startup USB stick.”
“This proposal is about redesigning the SDC, with a strong focus on Ubuntu and simplicity. In the end all the user should have to do is to insert a USB drive, select an image – if there is none it should be downloadable easily – and press start,” reads the submitted blueprint.
Besides the design, the developers should also try to make it more reliable, as the application crashes constantly and writing an ISO to an USB has more to do with luck than anything else.