Finston Pickle
Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:34:09 pm
Not really a Zorin topic - but would it not be good if Zorin overcame this issue and made things more like Windows:
What is it with Linux?
I wanted to get rid of some files on my 4GB USB stick - including the pesky files that appear when you have tried deleting everything (in case you want to restore them - which I don't).
I know, I thought, I will format the USB stick to FAT 32 and wipe all the data using Disks, replacing everything with zeros. Great - the disc was reformatted to FAT 32 and was promptly unmounted the stick from my laptop - not what I wanted at all, not so great. No way to remount in Disks or GParted that I could find (Gparted could not even see the USB Stick perhaps because it was unmounted - Doh!!!).
A quick look online about mounting a USB stick seemed to lead into ambiguous territory involving the command line - above my pay grade. This mounting concept has been one of my greatest of my bugbears with Linux in general - I never had an issue with Windows and the way it works with peripherals.
Fortunately, I remembered my hard won workaround - Format the USB stick in Windows XP, the work of seconds (the Linux wipe of the data took ~20 minutes) and the USB stick is mysteriously remounted the next time I put it in my laptop - simples!
Really, when will it be that Linux finally becomes user friendly - like XP, from many years ago, is?
Next Zorin O/S???
What is it with Linux?
I wanted to get rid of some files on my 4GB USB stick - including the pesky files that appear when you have tried deleting everything (in case you want to restore them - which I don't).
I know, I thought, I will format the USB stick to FAT 32 and wipe all the data using Disks, replacing everything with zeros. Great - the disc was reformatted to FAT 32 and was promptly unmounted the stick from my laptop - not what I wanted at all, not so great. No way to remount in Disks or GParted that I could find (Gparted could not even see the USB Stick perhaps because it was unmounted - Doh!!!).
A quick look online about mounting a USB stick seemed to lead into ambiguous territory involving the command line - above my pay grade. This mounting concept has been one of my greatest of my bugbears with Linux in general - I never had an issue with Windows and the way it works with peripherals.
Fortunately, I remembered my hard won workaround - Format the USB stick in Windows XP, the work of seconds (the Linux wipe of the data took ~20 minutes) and the USB stick is mysteriously remounted the next time I put it in my laptop - simples!
Really, when will it be that Linux finally becomes user friendly - like XP, from many years ago, is?
Next Zorin O/S???