Comment 38 for bug 915626

Apologies if I go on a bit of a rant, but this bug has persisted across multiple releases for me and, judging by the number of duplicates and the number of forum postings that I see on this topic, it seems rather ridiculous that this hadn't been addressed. Is there some technical reason for this bug? Not being a programmer, I can't comment on the difficulty of solving the problem, but it sure seems like such a critical bug in what is probably some people's first introduction to Ubuntu should not be persisting for this long.

Imagine the following conversation:
"Hey, do you want to try Ubuntu? I can throw it onto a USB stick and let you give it a try."
"Sure."
"Hmm, it looks like I'm having some trouble creating the USB stick. Hang on, let me Google around a bit to see if I can figure out why it keeps crashing."
-- after 2-3 minutes of looking for a fix --
"Never mind, if Ubuntu requires this much work I don't have time."