Originally Posted by Mac the Knife
New shiny Breezy just mounts them.....
Must be new? Downloading that iso as I type. Don't get me wrong, I think ubuntu is brilliant, but it is touted as one of the best Linux has to offer, and it is still not as 'invisible' as windows.
Even Apple makes you mount drives (though you can automate it). Suppose you have a string of drives - do you want the OS to chunter along mounting each one on boot? Then people would complain about THAT.
Is Apple mainstream? I wouldn't say it is, even though a large amount of the 'innovative' things MS has claimed to develop were first seen in Apple. I would have the OS automatically mount all local drives, and any networked drives I ( or the network administrator) had configured. If you have 10 local drives, then mount them all out of the box, if you don't like that then remove them using easy to understand tools.
Default behaviour has to be simple, my mother has to be able to use it, out of the box. All the people who are smart enough to get a job should be able to use it, out of the box. A significant percentage of these people probably don't even know there is a hard drive in there.
True enough, but that's not the point.
It addressed your 'Privacy' point in your earlier post
