kai wrote:
I can imagine that - for the hardcore geeky type who still thinks of the CLI as a usable interface - this might be a good option.
However, the rest of us want - no, expect - the drive to be available for writing and reading seconds after plugging it in.
I might add, writable at a decent speed. If you can go for dinner and it's still writing when you come back, that is not acceptable. That is, unfortunately, the default situation with SUSE. It worked well previously and they broke it.
Actually, it won't let you close the Konqueror window until it has stopped writing, so there's no issue, AFAIK.
That certainly beats Windows, where you've got those flying documents that don't let you do anything else. It reminds me of demonstrating OS/2 to people a few years ago. They were amazed that with OS/2, you could actually do something else, while formatting a floppy! ;-) With Windows, your computer was essentially locked up, during formatting. With OS/2, you started the format, and went back to whatever you were doing. You'd then have to check to see if the formatting was finished, because it had such an insignificant impact on performance, that you never noticed it had completed.