Normal people (idiots) would rather spend 4 years of their overall life “hacking” with Windows to avoid 30 minutes learning to use a forward slash.

I mean it’s probably a similar amount of time and effort trying to fix Windows than it is learning to use Linux.

I once spent several hours at work trying to mount a USB drive to red hat. I’ll keep fighting windows for now.

On work machines, it may also be on purpose (IT department having restricted the use of USB storage).

I don’t think so; there was a procedure for it and we had root access. It just didn’t work according to the procedure, nor any of the ones I found online. If I remember correctly, it said to mount sda1 and that didn’t work. Another different machine worked with sdb0 or 1. Ended up having to plug a laptop in with a network cable and ftp the files.