On 2/1/19 12:56 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
I just tried out your very broad statement.
* Windows 10, latest patch level ("modern" in my perception). * USB Stick with GPT and ext4 and BTRFS partitions on it. * Plugged in * Windows offers to format it.
No driver autoloaded. No file system mounted.
I know that many young and inexperienced people believe the "MICROSOFT <3 LINUX" statement that the company now states, but it is not actually true and never was. The large amount of effort that Microsoft is putting into "Windows Services for Linux" shows this. It is just another instance of Microsoft's time-honoured and highly successful "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. Once this is understood, small niggling inconveniences for users of other OSes, which can be plausibly explained away, are a bonus. OTOH, Windows includes a huge number of drivers for a massive amount of hardware, which _benefits_ Windows users. You just need to work out "cui bono?" Who benefits? It helps MS if hardware works, even sub-optimally, because it helps MS users and customers. It also helps MS if interop with non-MS OSes silently fails *especially* if that means the other OSes must do more work. It doesn't help the customers, which shows where the company's focus _really_ lies.
And they are the ones that surely can and will find out how to add that one comment character to the config file to fix that. Even Felix will be able to solve that problem ;-)
That's true!
If all the docu-capable people would start writing wiki articles about this now, then once this is in an end-user facing distribution, a simple "openSUSE USB stick unknown file system" google search will lead them to the solution in no time.
Sadly there are quite a few other demands on our time. We're very short-staffed.
See the rest of this thread, we are already trying to work on that.
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