On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:08:21 -0500 (CDT) CAREY SCHUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
This is a competitive world.
When new devices come out, Linux adds support for them as it can, they don't say "sorry, you'll have to use the competitive operating system for that", granted some require proprietary drivers, so it is not always possible, but generally we (the market) pressure the manufacturer to support Linux.
Carey, I have not played with gparted. I use fdisk to partition drives. More often, I partition drives using the install program of whatever GNU/Linux I am installing. Back in the day, I had an LS-120 floppy drive. The LS-120 disks generally came formatted for Macs, and GNU/Linux had no problems reading them. I have just purchased a new USB stick. It took some fiddling to make the thing mount, and I quickly reformatted it as VFAT, with a label I regard as appropriate. Now everything works perfectly. Could the original format have been XFAT? I don't even know what XFAT is. In the past, I have partitioned my USB drives. I did not bother this time. As I type this, it is mounted on my desktop as /dev/sdi, as opposed to /dev/sdi1. VFAT definitely works in Microsoft Windows. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson