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Small correction it uses letter paths because QDOS used letter paths and MS does not know how to tell its customers to STFU and change with the times.Windows does not use drive letters internally at all. Instead there's a really logical (if unwieldy) system that can be mapped to anything. Because of legacy reasons back in the day (I'm talking NT 3.51 here...), letters had to be kept, and, well, shitty programmers assumed letters would still exist on NT as well, and consequently made it required again for NT-only programs . If they wanted to, MS could flip a few lines of code and have UNIX/POSIX-style paths for everyone, but there's just no point: good programmers know to use the correct representation, and shitty/lazy ones will use letter-based paths.
Far as I know there are Ext drivers for Windows and for sure NFS mount support neither are made by MS and are not present as defaults. Not that I am surprised by that on any level since MS never claimed to support open standards.*Windows could have extra filesystems added, but nobody can be bothered to write new filesystem drivers aside from maybe Paragon, and the documentation as far as I know, is poor at best. As for needing new empty directories to mount drives, *nix also needs that. As for arbitrarily moving stuff like My Documents, Windows handles it pretty well: right-click folder, switch to "location" tab and move it to a new path. If you don't want to do that for every folder (it's a PITA), a pile of symlinks (yes, Windows has those too) will also do. Finally, you can't just change the partition mounted to /home on a *nix without repercussions. Stuff will break and reset, much like on Windows, unless you copy the data over first.
*Funnily enough the "Oh so locked up" OS X supports NFS out of the box as well as NTFS read and write**.
**You have to enable NTFS write but it is in the OS by default.
Sure you can't arbitrarily move partitions around w/o copying data first that simply makes sense.
Sure... however we are not talking about symlinks here but rather mount points which are different as you knowSee above. Windows is at parity with *nix. Symlinks. Symlinks out the wazoo!