I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.

As a point of contrast. In Linux Mint you press the eject button. That's it.

The other guy was getting into more detail for people who want it.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

And the same works 99% of the time in Windows. We're talking about the small fraction where pressing eject doesn't work for whatever reason.