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Originally Posted by Glorfindel

That varies greatly between distributions. Some mount in the manner that you specified, others don't. I know of exactly zero that make their users manually name the mount points. Now, I've not used every distro out there, but I have used several over the last few years.

Linux being linux, there are dedicated programs for automounting, and they default to the standards-based /media -- nevertheless you can always manually use the mount command. The /mnt folder is typically used that way, and the standards list it as a place for keeping always-mounted drives on an ongoing (permanent) basis IIRC. In casual use you won't even see that folder to begin with.

I NEVER said there are distros that force you to manually mount. However, my fstab, by personal choice, mounts the Windows partition read-only there.

I do however use ArchLinux so I had to manually install an automount daemon. Most distros, including every single one a non-cli-user would install, bundle those. The heavyweight DEs bake it in.

See above regarding distribution variation.

Have you ever heard of freedesktop standards?
The word "standards" should be a clue, anyway...

Some file managers do and some don't. Windows' does, but at the same time, Windows doesn't use the Linux naming scheme.

Again, every popular file browser likely to be used by a non-cli-user does. Because it is a freaking obvious idea and it is mentally retarded not to.

But since we are all agreed that Windows does do that, what is your problem? Are you just being argumentative? (Don't answer that, just see below.)




Thank you for responding. You have confirmed my belief that you are being wilfully disingenuous.