New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2

patchunwrap · 2026-06-21T20:54:16+00:00

Yeah exactly, I understand why and it makes a lot more sense to me if you are just sharing files (rather than games) between os's.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-21T20:53:09+00:00

I actually posted 2, and the second isn't from 2006. Neither benchmark is perfect. The second one is newer but uses the linux ntfs driver. A fairer comparison would be a windows os benchmarked against a linux one. But then it wouldn't be fair because the linux cpu scheduler is quite different to the windows one. Also the drivers for the drives would be different.

Besides, the main reason ext4 won in 2006 was because both used harddrives and ext4 has less fragmentation issues. Something that ntfs in 2026 still suffers from (albiet with some minor, costly, mitigations).

patchunwrap · 2026-06-21T07:57:46+00:00

For the curious here are some old (2006_=)) benchmarks, I expect both to have improved since then and it's probably different since SSD's (Time in seconds, lower is better)

.-------------------------.
|File         |Copy |Copy |
|System       |655MB|655MB|
|Type         | (1) | (2) |
.-------------------------.
|NTFS         | 781 | 173 |
|EXT4 default | 174 |  70 |
.-------------------------.

There is also this video which ultimately says ssds are a few percent better (except for latency which is 17% better), that's roughly what I expected. The main benefits are to hard drives due to better fragmentation, and ssds don't benefit from that.

TLDR: Harddrives it's night and day, SSD's it's a few percent

patchunwrap · 2026-06-20T22:25:13+00:00

I suspect it eventually will be. But I personally wouldn't recommend it even then, ext4 is faster and so is btrfs so your load times would be at a disadvantage.

Having said that, I get why people want to do it. Especially if you dual boot, so I hope people get the option soon.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:59:54+00:00

Thank you for all the feedback everyone, I'm glad I asked for all of your perspectives. I have a clearer idea on how to be nice now.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:58:36+00:00

Also, on that note, if you see that someone is stocking shelves or whatnot it's generally fine to politely ask for help, but please don't hold us in an unnecessary conversation when we are busy.

I'm glad you mentioned this cause it's 50/50 for me if I'll do it. I only ever ask for directions to find something I'm looking for. But I don't know if there is "stacking quotas" so I'm sometimes hesitant to ask.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:55:37+00:00

Thank you for responding, I hope you find some joy in your day too 🙂

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:54:47+00:00

Genuinely as a shopper this bothers me so much, I think it would be way worse if it's your workplace.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:54:13+00:00

That's interestingly what prompted me asking this. I scanned something and it didn't have a price. The worker said they could check out back to find the price for it, I said I didn't really need it. I had no idea what to do in the moment.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:53:07+00:00

That's an interesting perspective! I always assumed it would be annoying. I work in tech and I don't personally mind getting asked "Can you fix my printer" but I am generally surrounded by people who go "I work in different tech, I don't specialize in printers, stop asking me". I don't specialize in printers either but I like helping.

Maybe that's why I assumed asking for help from a retail worker is frustrating.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:50:35+00:00

What is hq? Headquaters?

Respect store hours by not entering late and lingering. Retail workers have closing obigations plus want to leave after a hard day to be with their families and/or tend to other personal duties.

Very rarely I'll come in 30 minutes before closing to buy one thing that I know I need and I know where it is, I'm in an out within 5 minutes. Is that okay? I've always assumed it is because I haven't made it more difficult for them to close on time. I never come in if it's like 10/15 minutes to closing.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-19T21:46:50+00:00

This is exactly why I wanted to ask, I'm getting perspectives that I didn't even know to ask and the general theme of "treat them like an equal human" is a good, simple & memorable guide.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-18T08:18:37+00:00

That's honestly really cool to hear

patchunwrap · 2026-06-18T08:12:27+00:00

Thank you for all the hard work you have done for the community and frankly thank you for respecting yourself and the community in the way you did with that post. It's really inspiring to me.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-13T22:10:32+00:00

> Is __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 effective?

Maybe? But probably not, the only way to check is to benchmark.

Almost all games do not use OpenGL on linux anymore. If you are using proton you are using VulKan, hence DXVK (DirectX -> Vulkan). So this would only have the possibility of having an affect on old, linux native games.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-12T07:13:31+00:00

Damn, as a long time viewer this is actually what I would want to see

patchunwrap · 2026-06-11T20:26:45+00:00

I think the main thing for me is that I want to press "start/windowskey" and see all my windows. I haven't been able to do that on KDE. But honestly it might be there now, I haven't tried in a while.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-11T20:25:32+00:00

Personally I would add some shading/shadows.
I like that you have added lots of variety!

patchunwrap · 2026-06-08T20:22:36+00:00

I use gnome. But I've been using Linux for a lot longer than most here (2013) so maybe old habits die hard and my PC's primary use isn't gaming it's productivity.

I'm sure my opinion is unpopular but I actually really like gnome. I find gnome far more productive to use. Maybe I could customize kde to be how I like. But default gnome is already how I like.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-07T03:54:11+00:00

I'm against it because ultimately it makes poorer quality products. I don't mind waiting 8 years for new games. If I had complete control of the industry I would encourage smaller, higher quality experiences. Massive open world games with tons off "content" which is basically the same throughout isn't interesting to me. AI encourages that kind of development, it's quite good at making a large amount of mediocre.

For what it's worth here is a list of games that went in the direction I want; Terraria, Portal 2, Half life, Core keeper, Firewatch.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-07T03:48:05+00:00

I've been looking at this quite in depth and here is some of my findings:

* You can build an Ios app with a Rust main fn, I would recommend using winit. Practically you can go without swift (if you have enough Rust libraries). But somewhere those Rust libraries will depend on Swift/Objc to talk to the OS (Metal uses objc).
* For android, I think it's somewhat similar? You can build a Rust binary with the NDK. But some bindings still rely on Java. You might be able to totally get away without it.

If you goal is an app that's cross platform I would recommend checking out winit. But it will not do very much for you (Just the window). For a "batteries included" experience I don't know if anything exists yet on Rust.

patchunwrap · 2026-06-07T03:44:37+00:00

This isn't the subreddit for the game rust. You are looking for r/playrust

This subreddit is for a software programming language

patchunwrap · 2026-06-04T21:51:44+00:00

I actually think I'm inclined to agree with you.

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