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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject: Re: Cult of Unix
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:54:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:53:08 -0500, Paul wrote:

> On Fri, 1/17/2025 6:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Windows seems to force you into thinking in terms of sector-level
>> copies and low-level “imaging” and like that. Filesystems are supposed
>> to abstract away from all that. They do on Linux, but it seems Windows
>> hasn’t quite caught up to that idea yet.
>> 
> No, you just gotta use your brain. That is all.
> 
> Who in their right mind, picks the least efficient way to do something ?

Nobody did. They picked the only way that would actually work, and that 
was to give up on Windows, and boot up a Linux system to access the same 
volumes.

Remember, the Windows way was the least efficient way --- it was so 
inefficient, it was looking like it would never complete.