Isn't it pretty annoying to burn any .iso file to make it work? In linux, you have a pretty simple way to mount an iso file without even burning them. This allows you to view the files within the iso file as simply as you would view files in any normal directory.

Though we will always prefer mounting, because extraction takes extra space and also the mounting process is done dynamically.

Again, an .iso file can be viewed as a directory if you see them through extraction softwares. (Saying that, doesn't an iso file act as a directory only after being mounted?)

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