Ubuntu ISOs To Finally Double As USB Images

[devius]

I reported this bug over 15 month ago, really fast reaction time

Nice going! Your efforts payed off I was also a subscriber of this bug which really really annoyed me. 15 months is way better than the several years it takes to get some things fixed in KDE!

[bhassel]

Do I actually need to use "dd" or can I simply drag-n-drop the iso (from Nautilus) to a clean usb-drive?

No, that would just create an .iso file in whatever filesystem is already on the flash drive (unless you are referring to some feature of Nautilus I'm not aware of.) You need to replace the entire contents of the flash drive (file system and all) with the contents of the iso, hence the need to use dd or similar.

[roland]

The downside to doing it the new way is that it sets up only the read-only file system image - it doesn't allow you to use the remaining space on the flash drive for persistent storage.

You can reclaim the unused space as an additional partition at least. But no, the image isn't setup to look for it for overlaying new packages.