Yeah, so do I. I sometimes even comment stuff that I know are wrong, just to get a conversation going, lol 😂.

Be the change, post something 🤷.

Everyone complains, but no one does anything about it…

Ummm… as I said, everything up until Windows 7 won’t boot, not unless is WinPE based. If it’s a regular install, no, it won’t. Windows 8 and above, yes, it will boot… and it won’t throw errors. Will everything regarding 3rd party software work? No. Can it be fixed? No, no source available. Then what’s the point of booting from anything other than C? IDK, you tell me 😂.

Really? Try booting Windows XP from a drive that is not marked as C: somewhere in registry and in config files. Even if you do manage to change the root from C to something else, it simply refuses to boot, end of story. People have tried it, it just doesn’t work. With Win8 and above, yes, it does work, but some programs will out right refuse to work (cuz they’re gonna look for C:\%WINDIR%\system32 for the libs it needs to run, and they won’t be able to find them).

The only exception to this rule is WinPE (for WinXP), and that is a hacky setup, not officially supported by MS. It can be done, but it takes a looong time to actually make it bootable under any drive letter (anything that’s not C).

But yes, you are correct, drive letters were in use before DOS.

Unfortunatelly, drive letters are reminants from the DOS and early Windows days (anything that isn’t NT 6.2 kernel based or above, has to have drive letters), so they have to stay for backwards compatibility.

Actually, up until Windows 8, drive letters were required for booting as well (which can be seen in the safe mode boot screen). Windows 8 and above doesn’t require them though (can be seen in safe mode with debugging enabled), but they are there and will stay there for a very, very long time. Windows can’t just part ways with them, there are just way too many things tied to them… legacy stuff, but legacy stuff that everyone still uses. Like try mounting a network drive without a drive letter, lol 😂… or anything for that matter without a letter, you can’t. It’s how Windows works. It’s so deep into the kernel, that there is no way to remove it without breaking stuff left and right.

Well, at least they’re using Linux.

Yeah, that might fly with friends, try your family or your wife.

Exactly… some things are better left unsaid.

Ya got me!

Yeah, I reread afterwards 😁.

Nah, I just like enjoying them. I did act for a short while, while I was in uni, amateur theater, but that was just for fun, I never saw myself as an actor.

At the plays? There are ticket numbers here, you don’t just get to pick where you sit, you sit where the ticket says you should sit. You can’t always pick and choose, depends if the play is sold out or not, but if I get to pick, middle, 5th, 6th row, not too far, not too close.

Maybe… but I guess you’ll never know.

Well, at least you’re honest…

You love her? Don’t answer with your little head, use the big one.

I thought you were a house painter.

No.

It’s just NO in hex… sorry the mystery isn’t deeper.

Hell, I wouldn’t tell it here as well. It’s going to the grave with me.

I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since… forever. Probably 20 years.

I do watch a lot of plays though. Would throw money for that any time.