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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by riskable to c/[email protected]

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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 👍

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Windows recovery is unable to boot.