Burning ISO flash drive seems problematic?

[az2020]

And in all honesty Linux Lite has been the most problematic for me as well, and I honestly don't know specifically why. I suspect it depends on the hardware at both ends of the process.       

I don't know anything about this topic (how ISOs are made, the different ways they're written by different tools. But, when 20 distros boot fine (written a variety of ways), and one won't boot even when burned the official way... it looks like just one end would be the place to start.

For example: what does gparted's error mean: "Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb." I get that result burning both "official" ways, on multiple flash drives, burned from two different computers (one is 3-years old. One is new.). But, I can burn 25 other distros without any regard for the tool used to burn it, from either machine, and they boot fine. (In fairness: I did have the same experience with Antix 19. It seemed particular in this same way.).

It seems more pronounced as problem with this ISO (its format?) than just "it's all nebulous; no USB writers work perfectly."

If it were my distro, I'd make this the #1 priority. How many people can't even test-drive Linux Lite because there's a barrier with the ISO? Linux itself is enough of a barrier for most people (coming from Windows, the audience being welcomed on Linux Lite's site). And then the ISO is fussy in a way virtually no other distros are. Shouldn't that be the proverbial "low-hanging fruit" for growing Linux Lite's user base?

I hope I'm not sounding judgmental, or ridiculing. It's just that the distro looks *awesome* and it really hurts me to think of all the people who might not get past the ISO (when, as far as I know, there shouldn't be such issues with it). I'm more than eager to help identify what's happening. If someone can tell me what to try, what info to collect, I can do that. I'm not very knowledgeable on these things. But, I have a lot of time.