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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)

submitted 1 year ago by riskable@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] UnsafePantomime@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have an Ubuntu machine at work with an NVIDIA GPU we use for CUDA. Every time CUDA has an update, CUDA throws obtuse errors until reboot.

To say only kernel updates require reboot is naive.

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Damn yeah I didn't think of that either. Alright, scratch what I said. The point still stands that you very rarely need to update outside of scenarios containing very critical processes such as these, those of which depend on what work you do with it.

It's been a long slow night and morning and I was half awake when I said that. Hell I'm still half awake now, just disregard anything I've said.