Indeed.
Also, you should never have to write the platform test, an important idea of FileSystem is to prevent that.
Complete transparency is not possible because the concepts of file system in Windows and Unix are different. While in Unix you have a continuous tree, in Windows you have the concept of drive or 'disk unity' (C: D: E: ...) and disjunct trees. Also in Unix you can have complex file names that include almost all characters while in Unix some characters cannot be used (like : )... Not to mention that file properties in Unix and Windows are not exactly the same, links are not the same, so on and so forth.
Have you read the chapter on FileSystem from the Deep Into Pharo book ?
Maybe some Windows users can help you better, but I don't recall others having trouble using FileSystem on Windows.
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