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avidphantasmyesterday at 5:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

No, they need to ditch drive letters first. The NT kernel and NTFS don't even require them (I used to mount disks without drive letters back in the NT 4 era). They just don't care enough to get rid of this annoyance.


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Dwedityesterday at 6:18 PM

Nobody wants to use \??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume3\ in their paths.

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noselasdyesterday at 6:01 PM

users , especially non-technical, find it highly useful in my experience. Is it a net positive to get rid of them, or will it largely only make developers happier ?

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