What app were you using to format the flash drive?
The Ubuntu file manager (disk partition manager after that failed)
> On Windows I have never had a button just do nothing. Not for something as simple and common as formatting a flash drive.
Amusing, given the amount of times ive clicked on a defunct or near-to-failing drive in windows and either had the drive disappear, or just not do anything.
The amount of times I've seen windows do absolutely fucking nothing in response to a USB, at least linux screams into a console about it
On Windows I have never had a button just do nothing. Not for something as simple and common as formatting a flash drive.
I've never had problems dragging and dropping between a popular windows program and the windows operating system.
Maybe it's inherent because Linux is open source and stuff just won't work together because of that, but if that's the case then Linux is doomed to never be able to compete with Windows.