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I didn't mean to imply that Windows is uncommon, but that you have to get pretty damn obscure to find another modern desktop or server OS that doesn't do the dot-equals-hidden thing. Windows is the most common on the desktop, obviously, but if you step outside it you're almost certainly in dot-is-hidden territory.

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Windows is still so overwhelmingly common that it's very possible to never have occasion to touch "another" desktop or server OS. Especially if you don't go out of your way to manage servers, and doubly so if you don't live in one of the rich economies.

GP is saying "out of the many commonly used OSes, Windows is the only one which doesn't hide dot files", not that "Windows is an uncommon OS".

But it all makes sense, Windows is CP/M based, not Unix based.

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