What's the standard for being an "actual Windows user"?

Asking because I doubt e.g. my mom knows that NTFS has symlinks.

Is she a Windows developer?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

The developers who complained to me about this are Windows developers regularly.

One is even a professional AAA DirectX gamedev.

Apparently not professional enough to know a feature as old as Windows 2000.

Egads, if the parent post wasn't edited, then I misread it. Sorry about the confusion.

It was edited.

> What's the standard for being an "actual Windows user"?

I think you misread that line.

Their message originally read "Actual Windows developers know NTFS has Symbolic Links"

Would anyone like to explain their downvotes?

From my point of view, even when someone is on the correct 'side' of an argument, if they got there by mistake it's still important to point that out. Both fortran77 and CoastalCoder can be wrong at the same time.

Is "I think you misread that line" far ruder than I thought it was?

...surely "I doubt my mom knows" wasn't supposed to be a developer anecdote that I misunderstood massively?

Maybe I missed something on this discussion but symlinks and NTFS are not really related.. They have them yes, how they're handled is different.

How are they not related? If NTFS didn't have symlinks we wouldn't be having this discussion. Critically, the modern standard for removable drives, exFAT does not support symlinks, so you can't count on Windows' support for symlinks if the user is git cloning on a drive that's using exFAT.

Pointing to this page is meaningless. `mklink /d` only works on NTFS but errors out ("The device does not support symbolic links.") on exFAT. GP acknowledges NTFS has symlinks and remarks that exFAT doesn't.

NTFS is the only filesystem that matters for Windows developers.