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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
Truely said, it makes much more sense to stick them in a crypticly named directory formed by removing the vowels from the word 'mount,' (Everyone knows what mount means, right?) with easily understood names like sda1 and sdc5. I'll wager that even the least among the Technically Unsavvy will pick that right up...
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Which distribution does that? I have seen, indeed used, such shorthands on systems where the drives were manually mounted or were configured as such by an administrator in /etc/fstab. I have only encountered /media/{disk_label} or /media/{user_name}/{disk_label} in current distributions designed for the "Technically Unsavvy".
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Sarcasm aside, drive letters are much easier to grasp for the average nontechnical user, which I think you will agree makes up the majority of the Windows user base.
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Uh, no. Disks are much easier to grasp. Drive letters are a legacy of the MS-DOS era, when it was more convenient to refer to the drive. That was especially true since drives could not detect when a disk was inserted or removed. The only way to use a disk by a volume label was to poll every drive each time it was referred to. Macs of the era were able to detect when a disk was inserted and removed, so they could (and did) use the disk label.
Besides, drive letters don't make much sense these days. Unlike older systems, where the media was inserted or removed while the drives remained fixed, removing the disk usually involves removing the drive. (The main exception being SD cards on systems with an internal SD slot.)