Drive letters. How quaint.
Windows. How quaint.
I have to admit that growing up on windows made it really confusing this past week when I installed a new hard drive and had to add it to my steam library. I have to create a partition? And “mount” it? Using the terminal and commands??? Then after following tutorials for that I discovered Bazzite comes with a disk manager which makes it much easier.
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.
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.
Now I’m imagining someone making 💩: their default boot drive.
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
I haven’t used an Amiga in several decades and memory is kind of murky. So how does the Amiga approaches drives?
Similar to Windows, but it’s not just a single letter. E.g.
df0:.
What’s drive letters?
In inferior operating systems they refer to mountpoints as “drive letters”. “C” is like “root”
Hard drive, e.g. C:, D:, etc. From what I gather from the headline
Drive Letters are also for removable media (floppy disks, CD/DVD drives, others [magneto-optical drives, etc), not to mention network drives. Not just Fixed Disks (hard drives).
It’s just an easy way to specify one disk from another.
