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The snippet from the Google search "What is FUSE Linux" told me that, according to wiki.archlinux.org, it allows a non-priviledged user to "create their own filesystem without editing kernel code". What does "creating my own filesystem" mean? And what does that have to do with editing kernel code? I'm really sorry for asking questions that are this basic, but it took me 5 years to find a website that explained well enough how to run an exe file with arguments, I'm just not that bright
Before FUSE was available every filesystem driver had to be part of the kernel and adding a driver meant modifying the kernel. With FUSE filesystem drivers can be installed as normal software without the need to modify the kernel.