You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11

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Linux doesn’t show drive letters either.

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Linux doesn’t have drive letters. They use an entirely different system, where everything is a file.

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Because that arbitrary concept doesn’t exist in Linux.

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It… doesn’t? Unless you mean line /dev/sda1, but that’s not really the same thing. On Linux you can theoretically mount any drive anywhere you want under the root, so you might have your music on /mnt/music, or /media/music/ or you could mount it at /home/<username>/music.

Mine is on a drive called Stuff I have mounted at /mnt/Stuff/, I also have a symlink in my home directory from /mnt/Stuff/music/ to /home/<username>/music, which seamlessly makes it appear that it’s there as well.

Really it’s far more convenient than arbitrary drive letters!

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In Linux there is one filesystem and you mount your drives in a folder of your choosing within that filesystem. By default external drives mount in /mnt or /run or wherever your distro sets a default mount point.

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There are no drive letters in Linux because that concept is specific to Windows.

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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

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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.

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Maybe Linux has an alternative way to show drives. Idk I haven’t tried Linux.

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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.

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