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!

    • bighi@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      People have been talking about the real problem from the beginning of the thread: small character limit on file paths.

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        3 years ago

        I would be pissed if they made me use such a ridiculously long login name at work. Mine is twelve characters and that’s already a pain in the ass (but it’s a huge company and I have a really common name, so I guess all the shorter variations were already taken).

        Edit: Also, I checked it’s really very simple to enable 32kb paths in recent versions of Windows.

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          3 years ago

          If your name consists of non-ASCII characters, like Thai words or Arabic or Chinese, it’s pretty easy to rack up >15 bytes in your username alone.