Additional lesson: knoppix and floppies is a bad combination

[torkell]

Additional lesson: knoppix and floppies is a bad combination. Why can't linux just work with floppy drives? Noooo, you need to either tell it to mount the disk, or rely on an automounter that never behaves when you want it to.

I'll say this for Windows: hardware generally Just Works (assuming that whoever makes the hardware can 1: make decent hardware and 2: write decent drivers. Some large companies apparently think they're exempt from those rules).

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[pewterfish.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this is true. KDE does have its little foibles, but the whole removable media trick under Linux does get quite frustrating. That you have to tell the system that the media in question has been changed strikes me as somewhat retarded, certainly. I suspect the trouble may lay in the fact that Linux and co are not really designed around dynamic hardware structures: hotplug is a hack at best. Any time the physical architecture of the system changes, Linux is gonna hiccup.

You're quite right, of course. Hoop jumping should not be a required skill in system administration.