As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍

…and Happy 30th Birthday “New Technology” File System!

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months ago

    This might sound ignorant but that’s cause I am. Why doesn’t windows just use ext4, btrfs, XFS, or something open source. They wouldn’t have to worry about developing it so it’d be a load off their chest and they could get really good features that even NTFS doesn’t have. Well maybe not with ext4 but with btrfs

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      11 months ago

      Microsoft really really hated open source some time ago. Now they seem to have embraced it, however some still think that might be an attempt to EEE.

      Still, I suppose Microsoft doesn’t think replacing the Windows default filesystem is a sound investment at this point even if the political resistance to such a change is, supposedly, gone.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        idk who was dumb enough to upvote this but NTFS hasn’t been great. That’s why they’re making a replacement called reFS

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          411 months ago

          It stood the test of time. Is it up to par with modern alternatives? Mmm, no. But for a 30 years old tech - it’s pretty freaking awesome!

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      411 months ago

      there is an open source btrfs kernel driver for it and a userspace one for ext4