On 01/02/2019 12.56, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 01.02.19 um 12:26 schrieb Liam Proven:
What doesn't seem like common sense to me is to load it on millions of installations where it isn't needed
Then all modern OSes must dismay you, because that is how they work: including tens of thousands of drivers that 99% of people will never need, just so that they are there and the software works for the 1% who need them.
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 wanted to try this, but couldn't at the time and I forgot. I do it now. Windows 10 at 1809 release, I think (latest is 1903). I plug in the openSUSE Leap 42.3 USB installation stick. Windows does not offer to format it. The explorer opens its EFI partition, and silently lists another partition (disk, in windows parlance). If I click on it, it immediately offers to format it. When I say no, a popup says it doesn't contain a recognized filesystem, and make sure all controllers are loaded and the unit is not damaged (which is correct as far as it goes). This behaviour will probably (hopefully!) change some day, as it is possible now to install some form of Linux inside Windows. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)