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567 points elvis70 | 2 comments | 30 Mar 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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qwertox ◴[30 Mar 25 17:48 UTC] No.43526029[source]▶
`/var/home/afidel/`

There are some pretty good desktop environments for Linux which emulate the Windows desktop, so that old Windows users would feel at home immediately.

But I've never seen them emulate the filesystem, which is what took most old Windows users the biggest effort to understand. And the Linux filesystem raises it to a new level of complexity, which makes every old Windows users want to go back to Windows immediately.

With "old" users I don't mean experienced users.

Is there some kind of overlay which does all this `C:\User\afidel\Desktop` mapping for those users?

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1. account42 ◴[31 Mar 25 10:41 UTC] No.43533370[source]▶
Surely you mean C:\Documents and Settings\afidel\Desktop

Or maybe it's not actually a real problem for users if these paths change.

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2. qwertox ◴[31 Mar 25 13:02 UTC] No.43534566[source]▶
My Windows 11 C:\ no longer has a `Documents and Settings`. It still works, though. Windows 8 has it as a hidden junction targeting C:\Users, so it was already deprecated there.