Microsoft is getting rid of the following File Explorer features on Windows 11
You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11
You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11
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Removing things like showing drive letters in explorer, but in another part of the announcement they're introducing a new focus session widget? I...
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? .
Linux doesn't show drive letters either.
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I have like 4 drives at minimum and knowing where I am at a glance is nice, is there no hope
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.
Maybe Linux has an alternative way to show drives. Idk I haven't tried Linux.
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.
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.
When all the letters are used up, it goes into doubles, i.e. /dev/sdaa, /dev/sdab, and then triples, I believe.
There are no drive letters in Linux because that concept is specific to Windows.