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support for symbolic links at the filesystem and UI levels

Could you expand on that comment? Windows has had symbolic links for a while now and I've encountered them while iterating file system objects and when looking at a folder using Explorer.

Seems funny, any time I've browsed an smb:// share on a Linux machine, symbolic links are visible. On Windows Explorer, they look like two completely different files. I also haven't spotted a way to create symbolic links in the UI either.

MacOS X Finder has a "create alias" function which in Unix parlance, is a symbolic link.

It's also had mount points for a while but users don't seem keen on them.

Yes, but plug a USB stick in, where does it get mounted? On a drive letter, and the OS partition is also on a drive letter. Everything else can be mounted as mountpoints, but you'll always have an OS drive letter (probably C:) and one for hotplugged devices.

Contrast this to MacOS X which puts them under /Volumes, or Linux where the modern convention is /media.

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