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Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also, the file system. For the longest time windows used NTFS exclusively, which is (or was) slower than Ext4 (the most widely used on Linux).

I think MS is moving away from NTFS and are going to use a different file system in the near future (maybe even now, I don't know anymore)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    They've been talking about replacing NTFS for a long time. 10 years ago they put ReFS in the server builds and.. show of hands anyone using it?

    I think they were trying to make ReFS compete with things like zfs but 10 years later it still doesnt support compression, encryption, quotas or booting..

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I don't think NTFS is the actual problem, but the Windows VFS layer (or whatever it's called over there).

    Running windirstat (or similar programs) is dog-slow on Windows, k4dirstat eats through the same partition quite a bit faster. Getting metadata to sort a directory with what 5000 files by modification time can take minutes in explorer, with Linux it's pretty much instant. minutes. That's not just non-optimised that's abysmal.

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