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Microsoft is getting rid of the following File Explorer features on Windows 11 (www.windowscentral.com)
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You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

How the fuck is removing the drive letters going to work? That's some crazy stupid shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    My tech company relies heavily on custom drive letters. If this feature goes public, we will never move off of Windows 10. It would literally kill the business if we couldn't see which drive we were accessing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I think most people have misunderstood these changes. Drive letters are not removed, but the option "Show drive letters" in folder options is removed. By default, that option is enabled, so the drive letters will be shown, now if you want to disable them you'll have to go to the registry.

    Just like "Hide protected OS files" is enabled by default, it will remain like that, if you want to show them, you'll have to fiddle with the registry instead of just changing an option.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    C:

    :(

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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? >.>

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Linux doesn't show drive letters either.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Show drive letter

    Every day, I feel happier that I use Windows 10

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Every day I feel happier that I gave up on windows entirely.

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