What I didn't know is that the laptop's BIOS lacks Linux support. On Linux, you might even be able to delete the file while it’s still running in VLC.I bought a new laptop thinking that, if Win10 was as awful as I suspected, then I could finally make the jump to Linux. For example, on Windows, you can’t delete a video file that was previously running a VLC without quitting the app. Linux doesn’t lock access to files as often as Windows and thus allows files to be deleted in situations wherein they wouldn’t be if the user was on Windows.In Linux, everything is under the root directory denoted by / and all devices are treated as files. C: for local disk and E: for a removable disk. Windows disks are partitioned and given letters e.g.Windows file systems are in the FAT ( FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32) and NTFS formats while Linux file systems are in Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, etc.

This can’t happen on Windows because the file system is not case-sensitive as sees both file names as the same. The Linux filesystem is case-sensitive so you can have file names like fossmint.html and Fossmint.html in the same directory.Differences between Windows and Linux file systems But first, you should know how the file system in Windows and Linux differ. The point of today’s articles is to recommend the most reliable tools that you can install to easily access your Linux files from within your Windows installation. One of the most popular problems with dual-booting Linux and Windows operating systems is the ability to access Windows files from within Linux but the inability of the reverse this is due to the way Linux and Windows file systems are set up.

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