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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁(en.wikipedia.org)

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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 👍

…and Happy 30th Birthday “New Technology” File System!

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NTFS has symbolic links as well, I use them all the time

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink

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I knew it supported hard links, where the fuck has this been?!

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