You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11
How the fuck is removing the drive letters going to work? That’s some crazy stupid shit.
My tech company relies heavily on custom drive letters. If this feature goes public, we will never move off of Windows 10. It would literally kill the business if we couldn’t see which drive we were accessing.
I think most people have misunderstood these changes. Drive letters are not removed, but the option “Show drive letters” in folder options is removed. By default, that option is enabled, so the drive letters will be shown, now if you want to disable them you’ll have to go to the registry.
Just like “Hide protected OS files” is enabled by default, it will remain like that, if you want to show them, you’ll have to fiddle with the registry instead of just changing an option.
I cant remember where I saw it, but there was a long windows conference on youtube recently but they are planning a big windows revamp it might be part of that, This time its not just front end but a lot of backend stuff is changing. including trying to make Adminless users the default without losing any important functionally for the average user.
found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6ClX-y2AE
Edit: Also iirc Dev and Canary channels are currently now testing windows 12, they just haven’t officially switched the names over.
Removing things like showing drive letters in explorer, but in another part of the announcement they’re introducing a new focus session widget? I…
Removing things like showing drive letters in explorer
what.
I’m going to have to finally bite the bullet and move to linux soon, am I? >.>
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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
Linux doesn’t have drive letters. They use an entirely different system, where everything is a file.
“Get rid of that useless local account feature, but slowly, make it difficult to use first.”
Show drive letter
The fuk
WIndows 11 UI is only bearable with StartAllBack. https://www.startallback.com/
Neagtive. Costs 5 dollars for 1 license, more for more licenses.
My Windows10 start menu broke when they added news & interests to the taskbar - typing to find an app stopped working and I could never fix it.
Finally I installed open-shell menu which replaces my start menu and restores it back to a more classic start menu with the ability to find apps by typing.
I’m honestly getting tired of Windows and all of my productivity apps are available for linux these days so I don’t know why I’m still running it aside from convenience. Once it’s no longer convenient, off I go to another platform. If only Spez from Reddit would get that concept.
Photoshop was the last program that kept me on Windows. Photopea.com does 95% of what my old Photoshop 5.5 does for me.
I’m 99% ready to move over to a Linux distro for day to day home use, and 90% done for work.
All my users are already dualboot ready, they just dont know it yet.
I suggest to make a list of program on Windows that are critical for you, and then make a list of programs on Linux (that are maintained) and install everything on a 2nd SSD. The cost is negligible and you can tinker as much as you want without breaking your Windows install in any way.
Lol yeah I’ve been avoiding paid software for a while - and I agree, Photopea is awesome, I’ve been switching over to that as well. I’ve purposely stuck with open source alternatives for years, including for my CAD and 3D modelling needs. And I’ve toyed with the live-DVD of LinuxMint a few months back and it’s a slick looking OS. Once windows pisses me off enough, I’ll go dual-boot and default to linux mint
