Posted June 26, 2010
I'm always amused and shortly after seriously angered by some peoples stupidity; today was the day of the Linux-tard who was arguing in favour of mount points instead of GUIDs and drive letters.
Dear imbecile, Linux is actually going the same way as Windows did on this front-- most automated tools (like the typical Grub autoconfiguration scripts provided in a distro's installer) have been using GUIDs to identify drives for a while now, for exactly the same reason as they're used in Windows: it makes things not depend on the location where the drive is physically connected. If they did then if you would swap a HDD your whole bootloader would crap out.
However, on either operating system, you should never be seeing GUIDs outside a few administrative tasks (specifically, anything involved in configuring system boot). Once the system is up, a drive should either have a drive letter or a mount point. Linux often fails here: Gnome's automounter, at least, will default to using a GUID as the mount point name for an untitled drive (i.e. /media/A123...).
Now, please stop arguing with the "Windows fanboy" that I seem to be and go do some fucking research before trying to give me pseudo-technical arguments to your shitty premise.
Dear imbecile, Linux is actually going the same way as Windows did on this front-- most automated tools (like the typical Grub autoconfiguration scripts provided in a distro's installer) have been using GUIDs to identify drives for a while now, for exactly the same reason as they're used in Windows: it makes things not depend on the location where the drive is physically connected. If they did then if you would swap a HDD your whole bootloader would crap out.
However, on either operating system, you should never be seeing GUIDs outside a few administrative tasks (specifically, anything involved in configuring system boot). Once the system is up, a drive should either have a drive letter or a mount point. Linux often fails here: Gnome's automounter, at least, will default to using a GUID as the mount point name for an untitled drive (i.e. /media/A123...).
Now, please stop arguing with the "Windows fanboy" that I seem to be and go do some fucking research before trying to give me pseudo-technical arguments to your shitty premise.