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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    1 year 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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        1 year ago

        Only if you go into settings, disable the safety measures and change it. And some apps might break.

        No, the default file path limit is 256 characters. And I don’t mean file name. Full file path.

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      1 year 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).

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        1 year 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.