[qznc]

When I plug in an USB stick every few months, I do not want to go on an hour long research trip to find out about "udisks" and how to configure it.

There are tasks I only do very rarely (burn a CD, use Gimp, tag some MP3s, use a VPN, hold a beamer presentation, etc). When I do them, I want to be done quickly. GNOME does this quite well. The last time I used a tiling window manager, I tweaked the configuration for an hour to make Gimp's weird window behavior work well.

[sergiosgc]

There is nothing weird with gimp windows in single window mode. It has been like this for the past few years...

[qznc]

At that time Gimp did not have a single window mode.

[VLM]

"When I plug in an USB stick every few months"

That often? Sometimes its hard to remember Dropbox is only about 7 years old and I've only had "always on" internet for about 15 years. Its surprising how fast we forget how things used to be. The future is very unevenly distributed and it feels so weird to read stuff in 2015 about antique USB sticks that sounds like griping about mtools and 360K floppy support.

Something that annoys me about USB drives is I haven't used one for anything but making bootable installer sticks for many years, and the "auto mount" paradigm makes life more difficult for me not easier. All I wanna do is dd the freebsd installer to the USB stick, now stop trying to automount.

[Shorel]

I just copied some music to an USB, to listen in the car later.

And the NSA is not reading my USB file names.

[u02sgb]

In the Enterprise world online file storage like Dropbox is commonly blocked.

[VLM]

Yet, isn't that the kind of workplace most likely to fill their USB sockets with silicone? If you've ever wondered why PS/2 connected UI devices will never die in an era of USB, well, now you know.