Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> 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)?

Because the commercial entities were targeting windows -- and before XP
and NTFS the one and only filesystem that would work with windows for
removable media use was FAT.

Surely it wasn't fragmentation in the linux world that caused it :-)

Linux had no bearing in that choice.  It was all based on commercial
entities seeing the computing world as "windows" (and/or maybe,
sometimes, seeing Mac as a tiny sliver off to the side).