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Wacko conspiracy theory: Microsoft really wants the end user completely separated and unaware of the file system so the user can't tell the difference between c
by tenebrisalietum 6y ago
Wacko conspiracy theory: Microsoft really wants the end user completely separated and unaware of the file system so the user can't tell the difference between cloud and local files. This allows Microsoft to create dependency on its own cloud services, the government to have access to everyone's files, and laptop makers to cut down local storage significantly.
Therefore Explorer is no longer going to get any love from Microsoft.
- jdxcode 6y agoIt’s because the file system doesn’t have inodes. It’s nothing to do with Explorer
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoI thought MFT indexes were the same as inodes.
- jdxcode 6y agoIn Unix files are pointers to pointers so you can have multiple files pointing the the same thing (hardline). You can’t do this in Windows and that’s also why you can’t delete in-use files or directories with files inside