All other measures of 'storage' and Windows are wrong. A kilometre is a 1000 metres, not 1024. Linux reports storage space correctly in GiB's. It's people stuck in their ways of using the generic term of GB's that adds confusion (and all other companies promoting memory in Giga, etc.)
Utter rubbish. The terms have nothing to do with the SI units such as kilogram, they just share the same prefix. Whilst this is often used as an excuse for "normalising" the computer terms, it's specious.
Basically, before the storage manufacturers started trying to redefine everything, all the terms were defined as powers of two and there were no problems. Their definitions don't just change because a minority thinks they should. I did a computer science degree 20 years ago and ALL these terms were clearly defined as their powers-of-two values. The GiB & MiB terms didn't even exist and all capacity was defined in terms of the correct powers-of-two values, be it floppy disks, hard drives, memory or tapes.
As for Linux, if this does report in GiB then that's pathetic and merely a naming change. All original Unix systems used the correct powers-of-two values, just like all other proper operating systems do. The Linux idiots have obviously fallen into the same trap you have of trying to look "cool and hip" by adopting the "funky new names"
As for your assertion that we're "stuck in our ways", that's laughable. You make it sound like the old terms were retired in favour of two new ones, one for each definition. That's not the case. The perpetrators have tried to usurp the standard GB term from under our feet for their own purposes and then tried to give us the GiB to replace it with. Pathetic.
If they really wanted to disambiguate the terms they'd have left the GB to mean what it's always meant and introduced a new term for the powers of ten values, thus reducing confusions. But of course the hard drive manufacturers wouldn't hear of such a thing as they'd be forced to 'fess up about their smaller drives, just as the old CRT monitor manufacturers were forced to stop selling screens as 17" or 19", when in reality you couldn't see this much display.
I rarely use the term GiB but at least acknowledge it's existence and correctness. It should always be referred to when someone asks about the smaller size of HDD's.
