Patrick Elliott wrote:
> And again. I have "never" seen any case, personally, where someone said, 
> "Ooh! MS is doing that with their OS? Better put it in Linux!"

No, but I've seen things added to Linux that were available a while ago on 
Windows. Of course the Linux people didn't go "had to have that," at least 
not out loud, any more than features MS "steals" from Linux are advertised 
that way.

> Windows borrows, Linux evolves.

Yeah, OK. Whatever.

> which just causes people like me, who "despise" storing data on 
> the same partition as the OS, to pull our hair out,

I had no problem moving my home directory to a different partition.

> to defraggers that 
> still, to this day, don't have the common sense to defrag the "unused" 
> space, 

Sure they do. Have for ages.

> or optimize program access (never mind all the third parties that 
> figured that one out as far back as Win3.11), to.. an endless list.

They do that too, and have for ages.

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