XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-02-02 15:24, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   > On 01.02.2025 17:29, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Janis Papanagnou   wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>> (I probably shouldn't engage in this thread - and not only because it   
   >>> got aggressive recently - because it seems (partly?) a Windows issue,   
   >>> given the mention of 'C:', 'D:' and such crap later in this thread;   
   >>> but I'm curious...)   
   >>   
   >> Calling drive letters "crap" isn't "aggressive" ?   
   >   
   > I wouldn't think so, but maybe we have a different view on that. What I   
   > meant and was addressing was the _ad hominem_ aggressivity. (It wouldn't   
   > have occurred to me that calling a technical mis-design "crap" would be   
   > considered aggressive.)   
      
   Some people do. I was called to attention and maybe banned from a Linux   
   forum for such an opinion. I assume because developers and packagers are   
   part of the community, and calling a software crap is insulting the   
   developer who might be reading and is working gratis.   
      
      
   > I think that personal "Die fucking troll, Die."   
   > [from "Quincy the fifth"] is something vastly different than "Feature   
   > C: D: is crap."   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Anyway, given that this is a cross-posted thread, it would be useful to   
   >> know from which group you are reading/responding.  I often give this info   
   >> myself when responding to cross-posts.   
   >>   
   >> My guess it that, like me, you are reading in comp.editors.  The point of   
   >> this observation is that this thread (whatever it does eventually turn out   
   >> to really be about) is really more of an Android/Windows thing, and is only   
   >> tangentially related to editors.  If you're coming from a primarily Unix   
   >> (aka, Linux) background, a lot of it will look weird.  I don't understand   
   >> it myself, but I am inferring (just from reading this thread) that there   
   >> are weirdnesses in both Android and Windows that give rise to the issues   
   >> that Arlen is trying to address.   
   >>   
   >> Neither you nor I are familiar with these weirdnesses and problems, because   
   >> we both come primarily from Unix/Linux backgrounds - where such things   
   >> simply don't exist.   
   >   
   > Well, I worked in the past also in DOS and Windows environments. And I   
   > seem to recall that there were some sorts/variant of "links" available   
   > (but I might be misremembering). And Android is a Linux (Unix) based OS   
   > so I'd expect that such primitive and basic mechanisms are nor removed   
   > from this OS. But I don't know; so if it's not applicable readers may   
   > just dismiss my hint.   
      
   Android is *nix based, yes, but uses an MsDOS filesystem (FAT).   
      
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