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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 19:39:57 +0100
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On 30/05/2025 17:24, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2025-05-30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 30/05/2025 14:51, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>> Why, again, did FAT become so popular for removable media,
>>> despite its shortcomings?
>> It's called the lowest common denominator. Or the highest common factor.
>> EVERYTHING reads and writes FAT.
> 
> Yes. The point being: why was there a need for such denominator to be
> FAT* and not a more robust (set of) filesystem(s)?
> 
> Surely it wasn't fragmentation in the linux world that caused it :-)
> 
No. It was the prevalence of Windows boxen.
*You* can reformat removable media in ext2 if you want.
The average windows user has trouble just plugging it in


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