Haha, there’s still things embedded deep in code and in CPUs that go way back to the 80s. If only y’all knew. It’s all shit built on top of older shit, built on top of even older shit with kludges and hacks to glue it all together. Know why Windows has five different ways to access the same setting? Because if they get rid of the older methods, they break a ton of other shit that depends on it too. A house of cards or a Jenga tower.
A modern PC can STILL natively boot a DOS floppy from 1986 in legacy BIOS mode because of this.
Theres also examples in the corporate world where some companies are STILL running 70s mainframes, and use shiny new PCs as front end terminals that just connect to the same old backend.
The control panel peaked at windows 7 though
everything Windows peaked with Windows 7.
Imma gonna stop you there and say the peak was Windows 2000.
Seriously, each new windows update just adds a fresh new coat of paint on top, as if to make finding the actually useful win 7 and xp menus, that are still there, harder.
Linux Mint feels to me like what windows 10/11 should’ve been
ISA still exists on new, modern hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/isa-slot-tpm-soundblaster-header-pc
This is super interesting and I had NO IDEA! Makes me very curious how much more efficient an entire fresh start might be with new tech.
Yeah I can’t even think of any recent CPUs that aren’t based on previous designs. Even Apple’s new M1 is an ARM derivative, which itself is based on an ancient computer from the 80s known as the “Acorn”.
Not That Fresh System
New York be like:
New? Still can’t read ext4 fs.
It’s newer than FAT (1977)
Yeah, new technology because it was the file system for Windows NT, which originally stood for… Windows New Technology.
Later Microsoft decided to just use NT as a moniker without any indication of it’s origins.
Me and my mates used to say it was short for “Not Tested”. Oh, how we laughed
how dare you bring this common sense to the guffahery!
Neanderthal Technology File System
Never name anything with “New” in the name, it will look silly after a few years.
Hey! 30 isn’t that old… Right?
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But they change UI design every time Bill farts
Join Ext4!
Or APFS
It’s open source too
Why didn’t they still not roll it out for general userbase?
They did.
It’s up to OS developers to implement it or not on their OSes
I use libsfapfs on Linux, but as always when Apple does anything open source, the Linux community hates it
Darwin WebKit Swift and its compiler APFS ALAC …
The only widely used open source project from Apple that I know is CUPS
The only things in macOS that are not open source are related to its GUI.
But you know… Apple bad as usual
As a developer, most of Linux users I know develop in Java and dual-boot on Windows to play games.
ReFS is a thing, but apparently not intended as a replacement (?)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview
Apparently Microsoft is going to move win 11 to refs but idk when. For all we know it might be in windows 12 only
It was new at the time. Anyway, what is the best file system to use nowadays? zfs?
I think zfs is very popular with the honeserver crowd, but its not worth the hassle for desktop use. If you want something more fancy than ext4 there is btrfs which lets you take snapshots and checksums the data to detect corruption
ZFS is brilliant and all, as long as you only add disks, too bad if you want to rearrange your disks, you have to buy a new set of disks and move the data.
Btrfs is much better for home use, combine your old 3, 4 and 8tb disks into one, buy a new 16tb disk you add it and remove the 3tb disk.
I mean, it’s still way better than Dat, but incredibly incompatible with a lot of things still and new usb drives are always FAT. Shame ntfs didn’t catch on more
External storage is always FAT, because everything can read FAT, so it just makes life easier for file transfers.
Not because NTFS/ext4/etc doesnt work on usb sticks.