[Royi]

The only direction Windows should go is being more modular and less features. Speed is probably the only feature all users want.

So make all features modular with advanced user being able to remove and get a lean and mean OS.

We want less, we want speed.

P. S. It is about time to upgrade the File System. It is too slow...

[dend]

Wholeheartedly support this. I want my OS to be as boring as possible so that I can do all the interesting things I want.

[hackerfromthefu]

The problem with this is fragmentation, if I understand you correctly.

It's one of the two reasons why Linux isn't ubiquitous on the desktop. (The other being open source doesn't provide enough incentive to do the boring unsexy work)

Fragmentation kills support. Imagine non technical users searching for help on an issue. First finding articles on Windows, then version X, then getting 'only applies with piece X, Y, Z installed'. That's already a problem and the suggestion of making Windows less 'batteries included' would make it harder for the mainstream users, who are the bulk of users.

Fragmentation also kills products, it increases development costs, reduces velocity etc.

Microsoft knew/knows how to make a better product, they just don't choose to because they evaluate they can make more money by screwing consumers over.

In my opinion we need regulation regarding anti-features. It's not perfect but it's the approach that is the answer in the non-digital world.

[panick21_]

I have not used Windows software in decades, are they still using NTFS?

[stuartd]

Oh yes. Very much so. Hey, it’s better than FAT-32!

[flatiron]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs...

[duskwuff]

ReFS has the stink of death all over it. It's been the "next generation" filesystem for Windows since 2012, with no signs of ever graduating to being the current filesystem -- in fact, a 2017 update to Windows 10 removed the ability for most desktop systems to create ReFS volumes.

[chungy]

ReFS is a poor man's version of btrfs much in the same way btrfs is a poor man's version of ZFS. It's also apparent that ReFS is basically abandoned.

[yyyk]

It's not abandoned, but the intended use case is not consumer use:

https://gist.github.com/0xbadfca11/da0598e47dd643d933dc

[fsflover]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30749512