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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems ๐Ÿ˜ (en.wikipedia.org)
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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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[โ€“] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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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  • [โ€“] 41 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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