XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:26:23 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > There have been cases made by Microsoft, where in the documentation it   
   > would claim a certain thing would only work on NTFS. And then an   
   > external dev would turn around and make it work on FAT32.   
      
   Here’s one big one: every time I point out the old “Microsoft thinks 26   
   drive letters ought to be enough for anybody” limitation, someone tries to   
   claim that Windows lets you use mount points instead of drive letters,   
   *nix-style. But then it turns out that mount points are an NTFS-specific   
   feature, that don’t work with other filesystems.   
      
   > As for "every feature", the audience here are mostly desktop users and   
   > not server users. The server side has a few features we don't see here.   
      
   Then there are those of us that are workstation users.   
      
   Remember workstations? Think of them as “desktops” with “server”   
   features   
   integrated. The “desktop”/“server” separation was created as a   
   marketing   
   stratagem by companies like Microsoft, deliberately crippling the   
   “desktop” capabilities so they could squeeze extra revenue out of   
   customers wanting “server” features. Such a distinction didn’t exist in   
   the Unix world before Microsoft came along.   
      
   And it doesn’t exist in the Linux world today.   
      
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