Examining exFAT

Posted Sep 1, 2019 6:15 UTC (Sun) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Examining exFAT by Cyberax
Parent article: Examining exFAT

That’s my point — in 20 years even Linux on the desktop has been hard to achieve; how much harder if you require 100% Windows compatibility (including device drivers and every crappy installer) as well. It’s just not feasible in the real world.

Examining exFAT

Posted Sep 1, 2019 6:56 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Windows is not 100% compatible with itself anymore. The "backwards compatibility" faction in MS basically lost the good fight. Reasonable compatibility is doable, though. Even for many drivers that use the UMDF.

And for installers Windows already uses quite a few hacks.

Some parts of Windows will still be tricky - the graphics stack there is top-notch and is well-integrated with such subsystems as font rendering.

Examining exFAT

Posted Sep 2, 2019 7:12 UTC (Mon) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459) [Link]

> Windows is not 100% compatible with itself anymore.

Exactly, just look on GOG the number of games that do not run on modern windows (typically 8+). Interestingly, many of them run fine on wine!