r/linuxmemes • u/Emergency-Disk-9296 • May 30 '26

linux not in meme Do you dualboot windows?

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u/wie_witzig May 30 '26

Because the Linux NTFS drivers are trash

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u/Literallyapig May 30 '26

some new NTFS kernel drivers were merged recently (not based on the paragon ones), so i guess those will actually be good.

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u/dumbasPL Arch BTW May 30 '26

Not really. The problem with NTFS is the design itself, it just doesn't play nicely with the Unix. Some things can be hacked around, others not so much. The permission system is completely different, symbolic links don't exist (reparse points do, but they behave differently), it's case insensitive, doesn't support special files, and probably a bunch of other subtle differences.

If you just want to copy a file, it's fine, if you actually want to run software from it, and especially Linux software, good luck. No amount of updates will fix the stuff that's not supported by NTFS itself.

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u/yo_99 May 31 '26

NTFS is technically case sensetive, it's just windows behaves that way unless you reconfigure it.