Technology

[–] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I wouldn’t tell you if I use Linux. I would tell YOU to use Linux. That reminds me… use Linux!

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Join the dozens!

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[–] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Literally dozens?!? Sign me up!

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

We have extra time to diss Windows since we don’t have to wait for our OS to reboot all the fucking time.

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[–] Audbol@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

And boy do you guys ever talk about Windows... Like constantly. Go on any Linux subreddit or community and 8 of the top 10 posts will mention Windows.

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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 years ago

Omg. This hits home. I think Linux has prompted / asked me to reboot one time since I installed it 2 months ago. Windows wants you to reboot everytime you change anything. I didn't realize how insanely often it asks until I had something to compare it to.

I got a friend trying Linux for the first time and they asked for some help picking software to install, like which office suite or photo app etc... They just instinctively rebooted after everything they did like it was a pavlovian response, lol.

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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You want your filesystems to be old and stable. It's new filesystems you want to view with suspicion.. not battle tested.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

I wouldn't really say so. Of course it's not a good idea take the absolutely latest system as your daily driver since it's propably not bugproof yet but also you don't want to use something extremely old just because it's been tested much more because then you're just trading away perfomance and features for nothing. For example ext4 is extremely reliable and the stable version is 15year newer than NTFS.

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[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Exec@pawb.social 1 point 3 years ago

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

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[–] sorenant@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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.

Improvements are always welcome but saying it's "ridiculously short" makes the problem sound worse than it is.

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[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

File paths. Not just the filename, the entire directory path, including the filename. It's way too easy to run up against limit if you're actually organized.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

It might be 255 characters for the entire path?

I've run into it at work where I don't get to choose many elements. Thanks "My Name - OneDrive" and people who insist on embedding file information into filenames.

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[–] chinpokomon@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

The limit was 260. The OS and the filesystem support more. You have to enable a registry key and apps need to have a manifest which says they understand file paths longer than 260 characters. So while it hasn't been a limitation for awhile, as long as apps were coded to support lesser path lengths it will continue to be a problem. There needs to be an conversion mechanism like Windows 95 had so that apps could continue to use short file names. Internally the app could use short path names while the rest of the OS was no longer held back.

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[–] motorwerks@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

You like diving 12 folders deep to find the file you're after? I feel like there's better, more efficient ways to be organized using metadata, but maybe I'm wrong.

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[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

Metadata is slow, messy, and volatile. Also, shortcuts are a thing.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

C:\Users\axexandriaanastasiachristianson\Downloads\some_git_repo\src\...

You run into the file parth limit all the fucking time if you're a developer at an organization that enforces fullname usernames.

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I think I've spotted the real problem.

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[–] bighi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

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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[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 1 point 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.