Why is this still a thing?

why is this still a thing?

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It's not

Every OS can read it. You can implement it in a matter of kilobytes. Its not patent-encumbered like exfat. its disadvantages don't really matter when you're dealing with small amounts of storage.

This 100%

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Enormously compatible and just werks with anything under 4 GB

The only file system that's simultaneously supported by Windows, Linux and Mac.

exfat also works on those 3

>2019
>not using exfat
To get back to No one is using it anymore due to exFAT for external drives or using a OS that doesn't use it as default (which isn't anything anymore)

Americans love fat

part of planned obsolescence conspiracy on SD cards

>fat
>32

Only reason Jow Forums hates it is because it's like looking into a mirror.

Winshit doesn't like new technology and appleshit enjoys broken and barely functioning filesystems

lol

kek
good thing im a zoomer

NTFS requires royalty payment to M$?

based

NTFS requires reverse engineering because it's proprietary and undocumented.

exfat costs money on QNAP NAS, fyi. fat32 just werx

R E N T
F R E E

>caring about what file system proprietary shitware supports

>buying a pre-built NAS
>paying for a file system driver

>adata uses on a 1tb portable hdd

because windows is still a thing. When windows is replaced, a different, hopefully better filesystem will become king