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Notably, storage vendors and many operating system vendors use different units to describe capacity, so hard disks will always seem small as a result of this.

[edit: add qualifying "many"]



Who? Not macOS [1], or Ubuntu [2]. Does Windows still use base-2? They probably shouldn't [3].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402 [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy [3]: https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html


Windows uses KB to mean KiB. Raymond Chen explained it in a blog post.[1]

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=17933


That explains why Windows doesn't use KiB to mean KiB. It doesn't explain why Windows doesn't use KB to mean KB.


I distinctly recall GNOME on Ubuntu using kibibytes. This may have been in the GNOME 2 era. Had thuis changed?


Windows does. The df command does by default. Those are the two I use.




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