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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)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] 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 ๐Ÿ‘

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, long paths are supported since 8.1 or 10 person bit you have to enable it yourself because very old apps can break

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Furthermore, apps using the unicode versions of functions (which all apps should be doing for a couple decades now) have 32kb maximum character length paths.