• BOMBS@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am not doubting your experience and respect your judgement. However, I’m having trouble trying to understand how Windows files were easier to get than Linux. To me, it seems like they would be equally as easy, except that using a Linux live boot USB is much easier to make, which you can use for both. Perhaps, the Linux drive was encrypted? Anyone have ideas how Linux files would be more difficult to access? I’m really just trying to understand.

    • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Maybe it was Gentoo installed 15 years ago… recent Linux is cake easy compared to way back when. I remember having to create a driver and compile a custom kernel just to get a USB lan adapter to work… these days it’s so effortless

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      1 year ago

      Windows requires extra software to read Linux filesystems. I guess that was too hard for OP. Like you said though, a live USB is the way to go.

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        1 year ago

        Older WIndows, this is true. That was an advantage since Windows would think it was the only OS and behave somewhat if you set it up right. But newer Windows can browse Linux fine (may depend on the format). I can see my Ubuntu partition with my Win10 without extra software, which I did need in Win8.

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          1 year ago

          That makes sense, considering Microsoft shoehorned the Linux kernel into NT. It’s been several years since I’ve tried to look at a Linux filesystem from Windows, so I’m not surprised they’ve updated it now. I do wonder if it can see ZFS or BTRFS, but I don’t care enough to look into it lol.