Please make it more clear that properly ejecting storage mediums is very important on Linux #1565
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When us new users come from Windows, we assume once the file transfer dialog closes, the OS is done with the drive and therefore, it's safe to just remove the drive without thinking too much about it. You can even remove the drive during a transfer on Windows and more often than not, it'll be fine (just missing files that weren't moved).
On Linux-based systems, your data is moved to the RAM first. The dialog implies otherwise, but it's understandable why it's done this way. I'm now aware of the fact that this is just how Linux works, but there's no way us new users would know that until it's too late (and possibly many more times due to habit), especially if the look of Mint is meant to accommodate Windows users ("if it looks like Windows, it must function like Windows").
A possible solution for this would be to "sync" data immediately after transfer by default (with a GUI option to disable) and show this in the file transfer dialog by changing the finished progress bar to the indeterminate "bouncing" animation with something like "Almost done. Important: do not remove the drive".
Rendered example:
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This behavior would also apply to ejecting the drive, replacing the writing data notification (another rendered example):
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This would sufficiently replace nemo issue #2172 (and would be much more obvious), but that issue is about 6 years old at this point so I'm not sure how much hope I have for something like this, but I feel this is pretty important.
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