Re: Distros specifically designed for children

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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