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 ### What about ext2/3/4? Why is that supported then?
 
-This is explicitly against the philosophy, but it is a pragmatic compromise since a lot of Linux distros and setups expect it to "work that way". It is necessary to keep in mind, additionally, that this is experimental and not explicitly supported, due to lack of maintainance. Maintainers wanted!
+This is explicitly against the philosophy, but it is a pragmatic compromise since a lot of Linux distros and setups expect it to "work that way". It is necessary to keep in mind, additionally, that this is experimental and not explicitly supported, due to lack of maintenance. Maintainers wanted!
 
 ### But I don't want to have a separate FAT boot partition! I don't want it!!!