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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€“] sorenant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

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.

[โ€“] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 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.

[โ€“] motorwerks@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 years ago (12 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.

[โ€“] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

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

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