Is complaining to open source project maintainers getting normalized ?
And how can this be improved ? Should "normies" be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?
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And how can this be improved ? Should "normies" be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?
This has to be a troll. They use Tails and do not know how to format an USB drive?
Fair point. An they managed to get their email delivered on that newsletter announce mailing list (Which I expected to be moderated). Not sure how that could happen.
I've had tails "kill" a few USB drives. By that I mean windows wouldn't recognize the drive with explorer and I had to use diskpart to reformat it, and the drive was fine. I assume this user doesn't know that, but I think back then I just googled "windows won't see usb" and got the answer so they should get good.
Windows refuses to recognize anything except the first partition on any storage device that it classifies as "removable", so this tracks. Just zero the partition table, and Windows will offer to format it like it wants on next plug.
That's not true. I have a 2-partition SSD that boots an on OS on one partition and has storage on the other, works fine in Windows.
The problem is that Windows' Disk Management utility doesn't zero unknown partition tables.