I feel consternation about symlinks on Windows. I find them extremely useful, but you never know which program is going to ignore them and which program is goin

I feel consternation about symlinks on Windows. I find them extremely useful, but you never know which program is going to ignore them and which program is going to follow them. They're inconsistent. Plus you can't tell by looking at files if they are symlinks or not because they have the same icon as shortcuts. I recently managed to crash Visual Studio 2022 because I had a symlink to a drive with a hidden $RECYCLE_BIN on it. If you copy files in Windows the system will copy the contents of symlinks, however many backup programs will not follow symlinks.