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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 ๐Ÿ‘

...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!

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[-] Secret300@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Why should they use anything else if NTFS had being great for 30 years?

[-] Secret300@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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!

[-] willis936@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Windows recovery is unable to boot.

[-] nicman24@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

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