NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

https://programming.dev/post/990681

NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 - programming.dev

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!

Unbelievably, Windows still has a ridiculously short filepath length limit.

Are you writing parahraphs for folder/file names? That’s one “issue” I never had problem with.

Maybe enterprises need a solution for it but that’s a very different use case from most end users.

Some of us happen to be organized.
32k Unicode characters. No, mate, it’s not easy to run up.