| There are two sides to this. Firstly, there are rightly the concerns about interoperability. And from "our" (meaning people who use computers all day long) point of view, losing files is like losing a leg. But secondly, there are a whole group of people for whom hierarchical file systems make NO sense. I don't know if it's some area of the brain that works differently or what, but you can explain folders within folders and they get it, then ten minutes later they are looking at you blankly. I'm sure it's the hierarchy that causes the issue, not the files themselves - but managing files without the hierarchy is difficult, unless you take an iTunes-type approach and hide them. Arguably that gives you the worst of both worlds, a (hidden) hierarchy that you can easily break when you navigate it with the wrong tool. BeOS (oh how I miss it) used an iTunes-type approach, built directly into the filesystem, and Microsoft's WinFS was going to do the same until Apple side-stepped it with Spotlight. And now Apple is giving us a frankly shoddy and totally sub-standard version with iCloud document sharing. But get it right, and it will open up computing to a whole group of people for whom computers are a mysterious black box that make no sense and cause nothing but frustration. The fact that phones make filesystems optional to the user is a big part of their appeal. |
You may want to look at: https://www.haiku-os.org
...if you didn't knew about it already.