You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11

  • LinkOpensChest.wav
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    131 year ago

    Removing things like showing drive letters in explorer, but in another part of the announcement they’re introducing a new focus session widget? I…

    • Kaldo
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      81 year ago

      Removing things like showing drive letters in explorer

      what.

      I’m going to have to finally bite the bullet and move to linux soon, am I? >.>

        • falsem
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          121 year ago

          There are no drive letters in Linux because that concept is specific to Windows.

        • Kaldo
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          1 year ago

          (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

          I have like 4 drives at minimum and knowing where I am at a glance is nice, is there no hope

          • LinkOpensChest.wav
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            41 year ago

            Maybe Linux has an alternative way to show drives. Idk I haven’t tried Linux.

            • Boabab
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              51 year ago

              Linux has a very different file-structure, which is the way your files are organized on a system. It’s a bit weird at first, but once you get used to it makes a lot of sense. A second drive can often be found at /mnt/DRIVENAME or /media/DRIVENAME. But they show up in the file manager in a list anyhow.

              • Flaky
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                That’s for mounting, yeah, but when it comes to interacting with the hardware, Linux itself uses letters for some types of devices. For example, serial-connected ones (e.g. SATA internal drives, USB external drives) are /dev/sdx (x being a letter from A-Z). I don’t know what happens when all letters are used up though, maybe someone can chime in there? NVMe uses numbers it seems - my boot drive is /dev/nvme0n1

                There are other ways to access devices and partitions besides that though. I just had to put EndeavourOS on a flash drive and the Arch Wiki recommended doing this by targeting the drive via /dev/disk/by-id/, which lists connected drives by name, connectivity and serial number.

                • eltimablo
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                  When all the letters are used up, it goes into doubles, i.e. /dev/sdaa, /dev/sdab, and then triples, I believe.

                • Boabab
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                  21 year ago

                  That’s totally true and somehow it didn’t think of it. I think that is the closest equivalent of the Windows naming scheme on storage devices.
                  But on the contrary: I believe on Windows the drive letters ( C:, D;, etc) ARE used for recognition (by the user) while the drive is already mounted. But you can also mount them without assigning a drive letter, making it somewhat different than how it’s handled in Linux. On Linux, the (average) user usually doesn’t see stuff like “/dev/sda” unless they specifically look for it. At most, they will see the name that are assigned to the drive and it’s mounting point.

                  • Flaky
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                    Pretty much, yeah. I think Windows uses something like \\PhysicalDisk0 internally, then shows it to the user with lettering.

          • Pseu
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            31 year ago

            Linux doesn’t show drive letters because it doesn’t use drive letters at all. Instead, everything is a file off of the root directory.

        • RoboRay
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          31 year ago

          Because that arbitrary concept doesn’t exist in Linux.

          • ReCursing
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            21 year ago

            It… doesn’t? Unless you mean line /dev/sda1, but that’s not really the same thing. On Linux you can theoretically mount any drive anywhere you want under the root, so you might have your music on /mnt/music, or /media/music/ or you could mount it at /home/<username>/music.

            Mine is on a drive called Stuff I have mounted at /mnt/Stuff/, I also have a symlink in my home directory from /mnt/Stuff/music/ to /home/<username>/music, which seamlessly makes it appear that it’s there as well.

            Really it’s far more convenient than arbitrary drive letters!

        • DayDuJour
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          In Linux there is one filesystem and you mount your drives in a folder of your choosing within that filesystem. By default external drives mount in /mnt or /run or wherever your distro sets a default mount point.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav
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        31 year ago

        I’m thinking the same. Windows becomes worse all the time. The only thing that’s kept me are some games.