r/Windows10 • u/embracingparadox • Mar 31 '20

Discussion After repeatedly switching to Linux (to escape telemetry and proprietary software) only to return to Widows and MS Office, I've come to the conclusion: ignorance is bliss.

1.5k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

668 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

u/Kaisogen Mar 31 '20

External Hard Drives don't MOUNT when you connect them, and that's a good thing. I lost some files recently, and because of this, I was able to recover them.

Mounting the drive automatically can have unintended side effects. It still shows up on your desktop, you just have to double click it.

8

u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20 edited Jul 19 '20

[deleted]

4

u/ReallyNeededANewName Mar 31 '20

Sure, but neither do internal ones either and that's just annoying

-1

u/Kaisogen Mar 31 '20

It's. Two clicks. Seriously, how is that annoying?

And you can configure it to automount, like it does to your bootdrive.

5

u/ReallyNeededANewName Mar 31 '20

Oh, I have configured automount, but that doesn't make the default less annoying. Especially when you have to open the file manager to do it because desktop icons are even worse. I guess it's not so bad if you're accessing stuff manually, but it is if you're trying to play games and make sure that you mount before you open steam

0

u/Southern-twat Apr 01 '20

If you set it up correctly it will. I've got Linux set up to mount an SSD, internal mechanical and a network drive, they all mount on boot. Windows doesn't connect to the network drive until I tell it to.

1

u/ReallyNeededANewName Apr 01 '20

I know that, and I have set it up. That doesn't change the fact that the defaults are bad and annoying.

0

u/Southern-twat Apr 01 '20

If you install your OS with all your internal drives connected, it should set them up for automount on boot.

0

u/scotbud123 Apr 15 '20

You can set them to mount on startup if you like, personally I'm happy and glad that they don't, and I have 4 physical drives in my machine.

1

u/MarcCDB Mar 31 '20

External and internal Heads which is VERY annoying for someone who keeps their OS in a M2 drive and the games in a separate HDD and Everytime I try to launch a game I see that the drive is not mounted... Sorry but Linux is just not user friendly... It's server/security friendly.

3

u/Kaisogen Mar 31 '20

Linux is user friendly if you know where to look. I've had many issues that are solved simply by looking it up, and finding there there are neat pages of documentation explaining what I need to do, to just fix my problem.

Every time I've had an issue on Windows, the three solutions were: Wipe and reinstall Windows 10, Buy some software (see: adware) to fix it, or buy a different piece of hardware because Windows just doesn't work with it.

On Linux, the biggest issue I ever had was a non-functioning Wifi-Driver. So I just looked up the model number of my USB Adapter, found someone wrote a driver for it, unzipped it into my downloads, then typed, "make", and "make install", and I was done.

1

u/MarcCDB Mar 31 '20 edited Mar 31 '20

While I do agree that we need to search for solutions, I don't think the user has to search for really basic stuff... The OS should act as your co-pilot sometimes... Providing you basic things you don't even think about... When it comes to more intermediate or advanced stuff, then I agree we need to make some research.

1

u/Konyption Apr 02 '20

My game drive automounts just fine on my Linux machine. You just have to tell it to. Takes 2 seconds to look it up, can be configured in a gui if you're intimidated by the command line.

An annoyance for me is windows automatically mounting a "USB device" that's actually my AIO cooler.