• DarienGS@lemmy.world
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    What’s wrong with this? Every OS has permissions that stop users from messing with system files.

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      1 year ago

      this is not the system folder, different drive, old windows install and no not every os has this. luckly…

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        If you try to access an old Linux install you could run into the exact same problem. Both Linux and Windows nowadays use filesystems with permissions embedded into them, so if the user on the new install doesn’t match the old one you’ll have a problem.

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          i just deleted what i needed with another os, i didnt want to format it i needed some space and wanted to keep some folders

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        Why wouldn’t you just format the drive if it had an old windows install?

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            Back up the folders and format the disk. If you’re deleting system files and folders, you’re clearly not running the OS from this other disk. Why waste the space on unneeded system files?

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        laughs because it has the same level of protection as other OSs and thus is quite secure in that regard, right?

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          Laughs in Linux because if I really want to mess things up it wont stop me unless I am not root. Administrator on Winshit means nothing at all, no control over your system.

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            You do realize that in this very post they explain that if you mount an old linux drive with another user, you can’t delete stuff either until you remove the flags or change the owner of the old drives’ files?

            You can do the same in windows, too.

            They are not trying to access their own Windows folder, but that of an old drive.

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              Maybe you didnt see I responded to a comment that says that every OS has such dumb mechanisms as mentioned in the post which is def not true. I use Arch btw.

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                You mention Linux in your comments, but this same thing happens in Linux too! It’s the third time I’m writing this in this comment chain, I’m gonna assume you are a troll since you can’t be this dense. The top comment of this post explains why this also happens in Linux, I mentioned it first and then have you an example. If you can’t ocess that information it’s not my problem. Have a nice day.