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99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button
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I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.
So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That's definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.
Windows probably has some equally complicated way of finding what is locking a file/folder... or you can just install File Locksmith which is a Microsoft PowerToys tool, and just have it in the context menu everywhere.
Well, the commands that I presented (
sudo,mount,umount,ps,kill, evenlsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to "memorise" them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (...what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?)....except you don't have
lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.Hi, I am that nerd, it's Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open taskmgr, actually.
...I hope to be able to develop a similar level of nerd when I switch to Linux soon
I found learning Linux much more fun, because I didn't have to fight with the computer on every damned thing.
The advantage of Linux is that it does what you tell it to do; the disadvantage is that it does what you tell it to do.