Jim Henderson composed on 2019-02-01 19:19 (UTC):
On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:26:18 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
Well, I've only been using Linux since 1995, but I managed to figure it out with exfat. It isn't rocket science, and with proper documentation, we make it pretty clear for the dozen people who need hpfs because they still want to run OS/2 and Linux on the same box.
You have statistics to back up this "dozen", right? Stuff that has been just working for decades doesn't get much press.
How do you know that? Do you think a non-expert would know that?
I think people should be able to figure it out, yes. Why do we assume that people are stupid or unable to ask questions when they run into problems? Isn't that what the community is for?
Remember for most people what computers are for? Saving time, and doing repetitive and difficult or otherwise impossible things. When something long working breaks, time saving morphs into time gobbling, not the least of which is Google's response to its bad responses feeding captchas instead of useful hits, the domino effect of one thing going wrong leading to multiple others before finding any light at the end of the tunnel, the kids stop screaming they're hungry, and sunrise begins before ever having gotten into bed.
It just seems silly to me to cater to a relatively small minority of users who have a specific need.
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