Re: Windows 11 for Workstations vs. Linux Mint

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:08:36 -0500, Paul wrote:

I don't live on a diet of synthetic tests.

Neither do I. I have done real-world applications involving keeping
hundreds of thousands of individual files in a single directory.

The file system is good enough for casual home user
usage.

I’m sure it is. So was CP/M. If a toy OS is good enough for you, then
fine. Some of us need more than that for mission-critical purposes.

I can tell you from my testing, not to put four billion
files in a single flat directory. The transfer would
never finish.

I’m sure that’s true on Windows. But on Linux, my expectation is, somebody
has already tested it to make sure it works.

Here’s a fun thing: try putting four billion files into an NTFS directory,
not from Windows, but from Linux. You will likely find it works a lot
better.