Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Wouldn't want to put words in his mouth, but guestimating ...
I think you're misinterpreting my question. It wasn't why pick _Lubuntu_, but rather why qualify a question that is entirely about flash media with the requirement that this be media for a specific distro and version.
To put it another way, I'm curious why Christian thinks Lubuntu, uniquely among Linux distributions, and/or release 14.04 for x86_64 specifically among Lubuntu flavours, has particular requirements for flash drives. Is there something about that distribution & release/architecture he knows that the rest of us don't?
If there isn't, then perhaps he should not qualify his requests for help with particular constraints that aren't actually relevant to what he wants to know.
Ah, but the *scary* bit I notice ... Lubuntu 14.04[.x] went EOL 2017-04 - so *no* security support, bug fixes, etc.
That's the next thing I intend to cover, after Christian gets around to answering my question.
Which answer I await with interest.
Lubuntu particulars: Released Version Support Ends 2014-04-17 14.04 LTS April 2017 - EOLed 2014-10-24 14.10 June 2015 - EOLed 2015-04-23 15.04 December 2015 - EOLed 2015-10-22 15.10 July 2016 - EOLed 2016-04-21 16.04 LTS April 2019 2016-10-13 16.10 July 2017 - now being EOLed 2017-04-13 17.04 December 2017
Don't install an EOLed distribution, Christian, unless you are prepared to keep that machine airgapped from public networks and have a really, _really_ compelling reason for installing an antique, unsupported distro. It's the dumbth.