[Solved] just had to create a new partition and then it lets me select FAT.
I’m not sure what happened, I remeber using gnome disks to do this before but it isn’t working now now the only options I get are (MBR/DOS) or (GPT) and neither one will let me access the actual USB afterwards in anything other than GNOME disks. I can’t use file explorer and add anything to it.
What is going on here? I swear this worked well before but now something has changed suddenly and I can’t get it to work anymore.
When I restore a Debian disk image to the USB it will finally show up in the file explorer but I can’t add anything to it and the only options I get to format it are those ones that won’t let me access it in the file explorer and actually use the USB.
What am I doing wrong?
I would stick with MBR for flash drives unless you need lots of partitions. GPT is great on PCs, but usually isn’t supported on other devices.