Which is understandable, because all characters are thought through.
Heck, I don't pretend to know everything about the thing, but...
The backslash \ character escapes the character to the right of it, so a path like that would be complicated.
C:\\something\\something\ else\\
"\ " escapes a space.
So, /home/user/file.ext is much better.
I run Ubuntu Feisty, and I'd be glad to help if somebody needs anything tested in Linux.
Also, the filesystem is better, in my opinion.
In windows, you have A-Z of drive letters.
A:\\ is normally floppy, C:\\ normally hdd partition 1, D:\\ & E:\\ normally cd drives.
In linux, every device seems to have a file pointer in /dev folder. These reference the device itself.
You can mount filesystems on a device, and link them to any folder you want.
And, ext3 filesystem is supposed to be so good at managing files that is almost never required a defragmentation - thats why its so rare to find a linux defrag tool.