Now I’m imagining someone making 💩: their default boot drive.
Drive letters. How quaint.
Windows. How quaint.
The Linux approach did take some getting used to, of course, but mounting drives to folders just makes too much sense. The only qualm I’ve had with it is if the drive doesn’t get mounted and stuff gets written to that folder, which, AFAIK, isn’t possible in windows.
Also, tbf (and balanced), windows also supports mounting drives to folders iirc, it’s just a weird way to do it.
Interesting read but I can’t think of much of a reason to ever use nonstandard drive letters except to maybe hide malware or something.
Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decisions from the 1980s.
Drive letters <<< whatever Linux is doing << the Amiga approach to drives
So? Who cares? Drive letters were always a dumb idea.
Also, obligatory “get your butt off of windows, switch to Linux.”
Its interesting to see how Linux-like NT paths are.
What’s drive letters?
In inferior operating systems they refer to mountpoints as “drive letters”. “C” is like “root”
