On the one hand, you're right in that you need both a line feed and a carriage return to actually "start a new line" (+1 to Windows). On the other, it seems wasteful to have two characters do a job that, in text files, could be just as easily done by one; editing and storing text is not the same as printing it, especially when the print incantation is a vestige of mostly-obsolete hardware (+1 to Unix).
Truthfully I have the exact view as yours (upvoted) but people rant without understanding. They are creating Tomorrow "evil" monopolies with their bandwagoning
Maybe according to the defined behavior of those characters, but that can't be why notepad doesn't support Unix line endings, as it still doesn't actually line feed when it sees a line feed character. I have never tried but I also suspect it won't do a carriage return for just a carriage return character (to be fair, that wouldn't really makes sense in a text editor anyway).
On the one hand, you're right in that you need both a line feed and a carriage return to actually "start a new line" (+1 to Windows). On the other, it seems wasteful to have two characters do a job that, in text files, could be just as easily done by one; editing and storing text is not the same as printing it, especially when the print incantation is a vestige of mostly-obsolete hardware (+1 to Unix).