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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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I just plugged in an old drive to make sure I'm not going crazy, and I didn't do anything besides hit the power button, log in, and open the file explorer:
And its right there.
It depends on the DE.
Even still, typing mount /dev/sda1 external isn't exactly Cirque du Soleil
articles like this wouldn't exist if it wasn't true, they will appear but they wont auto mount https://techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-in-linux-fstab/
*some distros may auto mount but I never used one that did
@the_riviera_kid @drosophila
As always on Linux you have different possibilities. Most big Desktop Environment's like KDE / GNOME / Cinnamon .... can mount devices automatically or on a click on the device. No need for additional entries in fstab.
If you however want a more general approach you can use systemd's automount or a fixed mountpount using fstab.
Most normal Desktop User's will be totally fine with the DE Solutions.
I use my secondary and tertiary drives for steam and I boot my machine to big picture mode on startup so I need them to auto mount. Having to navigate to the file manager and clicking on them is not the same.
I just click on it and it mounts and opens
This is Linux Mint btw
Sure, but you had to click on it first. It didn't mount on boot.
So on windows a drive will not automount the first time, you have to assign a drive letter, which it then remembers. If you skip this its just a drive in the device manager with no mount.
You can accomplish the same in Linux so the drive automounts on boot with a nofail option so that if it is disconnected from the PC the boot moves on rather than waiting on the drive to become available. But otherwise thr DE will let you mount it instantly.
This is a non problem. Linux has issues but drive mounting is not one of them.
I thought you were talking about just opening the drive to use it from the file browser.
I do actually have a drive I use for automated backups, but I just used the GUI to change the automount setting:
I guess that's a little bit inconvenient, but its like 3 clicks, adding a step to something I had to do to set up some other software. Its not any more complicated than disabling sticky keys in Windows.
Except we're not comparing it to disabling sticky keys, we're comparing it to needing needing to follow an entire page's worth of instructions, pressing secret key combinations and entering commands into the terminal, just so you can use your computer without it phoning home to the mothership. And that's on top of the fact that the instructions are probably going to be different in a year since microsoft is deliberately fucking with you.