These are corporate decisions. Sure they have very talented people who can implement this very easily. But everything boils down to profit in terms of time and money. These decisions are taken by the management not by the developers. Same is true for Apple. You can't mount ext4 in Mac OS without using 3rd party tools.
I'm giving my opinion of MS. They have made many predatory decisions in the past that make them poor corporate citizens. If you don't like it to damn bad.
They are all humans. They have made good decisions for their company too. WSL2 is one of these. Literally, if you can't defeat them, then join them. I personally know people from NVIDIA UK and UKAEA who ditched their Linux VM and started using WSL2.
I posted a similar thing here. Most of the Linux users seems to agree that WSL is an excellent move from MS.
My comment is not directed at the employees. It's directed at corporate. I stand by it. I worked for a large school district dealing with MS for 25 years. Please don't make my ears bleed with your love for it. Im retired and thank god can use Linux. I also use it in the PCs Ive placed in seniors homes for their online use. Are you a little kid? I fixed flaky Windows for decades as a job but I didn't "Join" anything. They're defeating themselves. Just like they lost the Cell market, just like they lost the ISPs to BSD and Linux. There are more systems running Linux distros then MS. Android, the Web. Desktops will happen in time. The Steam Deck is introducing a new generation to Linux Gaming and over 90% of games play. No need to defeat or join as you said. It's called preference. So MS schill boy, this old Linux boomer needs his sleep. New PCs running Linux need to be built tomarrow.
I don't love or hate MS. I use Ubuntu on two beefy workstations and Arch Linux (not LTS) on my headless server. I've a Windows 11 laptop as well for gaming and Windows specific softwares.
Are you a little kid
No really. I am 27. I am quite technical in my area of expertise.
New PCs running Linux need to be built tomarrow.
I agree. This also depends on the customer demand.
True enough. Our schools used Macs in the 90s. They dumped them for PCs. I retired and dumped MS for Linux. I build PCs out of old parts to donate. If they want to buy a license, fine. I'll help but most of the time the old timers like Mint just fine. No antivirus worries and I setup Cinnamon to look like Windows. They get it and I set the updates on auto. At 27 your still a kid. Enjoy yourself. Best Wishes
Dude your age is just a number when it comes to knowledge and acquired skills. You sound like you know your stuff. I personally look at people for their willingness to learn and grow rather than their age.
The initiative and tenacity to seize an opportunity to simulateneously represent and suck off the very talented people at Microsoft & Apple would be impressive if not overshadowed by how pathetic this is
The latest versions are working pretty well for me at this point... I build the driver into the offline install image for all my windows boxes... I am continuously wondering why there is not an ext2/3/4 equivalent driver for windows that just installs as an INF file and doesn't need all the malarky with ext4fsd...
everyone that dualboots and has some problems with formats. And percentage wise dualbooters on here are higher than on windows. But I get your point. Windows problems in windows subreddit. But since the format is ext4 it is more likely for linux users who sometimes have to use windows to have that problem.
sonoma95436@reddit
MS could add support but they're assclowns. Linux supports ntfs fat ext many others.
sidgup@reddit
Why dont you go implement it?
Captain-Thor@reddit
These are corporate decisions. Sure they have very talented people who can implement this very easily. But everything boils down to profit in terms of time and money. These decisions are taken by the management not by the developers. Same is true for Apple. You can't mount ext4 in Mac OS without using 3rd party tools.
sonoma95436@reddit
I'm giving my opinion of MS. They have made many predatory decisions in the past that make them poor corporate citizens. If you don't like it to damn bad.
Captain-Thor@reddit
They are all humans. They have made good decisions for their company too. WSL2 is one of these. Literally, if you can't defeat them, then join them. I personally know people from NVIDIA UK and UKAEA who ditched their Linux VM and started using WSL2.
I posted a similar thing here. Most of the Linux users seems to agree that WSL is an excellent move from MS.
sonoma95436@reddit
My comment is not directed at the employees. It's directed at corporate. I stand by it. I worked for a large school district dealing with MS for 25 years. Please don't make my ears bleed with your love for it. Im retired and thank god can use Linux. I also use it in the PCs Ive placed in seniors homes for their online use. Are you a little kid? I fixed flaky Windows for decades as a job but I didn't "Join" anything. They're defeating themselves. Just like they lost the Cell market, just like they lost the ISPs to BSD and Linux. There are more systems running Linux distros then MS. Android, the Web. Desktops will happen in time. The Steam Deck is introducing a new generation to Linux Gaming and over 90% of games play. No need to defeat or join as you said. It's called preference. So MS schill boy, this old Linux boomer needs his sleep. New PCs running Linux need to be built tomarrow.
Captain-Thor@reddit
I don't love or hate MS. I use Ubuntu on two beefy workstations and Arch Linux (not LTS) on my headless server. I've a Windows 11 laptop as well for gaming and Windows specific softwares.
No really. I am 27. I am quite technical in my area of expertise.
I agree. This also depends on the customer demand.
sonoma95436@reddit
True enough. Our schools used Macs in the 90s. They dumped them for PCs. I retired and dumped MS for Linux. I build PCs out of old parts to donate. If they want to buy a license, fine. I'll help but most of the time the old timers like Mint just fine. No antivirus worries and I setup Cinnamon to look like Windows. They get it and I set the updates on auto. At 27 your still a kid. Enjoy yourself. Best Wishes
Captain-Thor@reddit
Ok. If that makes you happy :)
Money2themax@reddit
Dude your age is just a number when it comes to knowledge and acquired skills. You sound like you know your stuff. I personally look at people for their willingness to learn and grow rather than their age.
Material-Pudding@reddit
The initiative and tenacity to seize an opportunity to simulateneously represent and suck off the very talented people at Microsoft & Apple would be impressive if not overshadowed by how pathetic this is
deleted_by_reddit@reddit
Consider linuxreader https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
IOTA_002@reddit
Worked for me. Thanks <3
Outrageous_Research3@reddit
Win 11 pro keys from microsoft partner (HYPEST KEY) on google
VladTepesDraculea@reddit
Still a WIP, but: https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd
your_relly@reddit
When I need Windows keys, I always turn to HYpes-tkey. They have the retail version that I discovered on Google.
YTriom1@reddit
When assigning letter for my Ext4 Partition windows tells me that it's unformatted and i must format it to access it
unflushable1@reddit
I was facing the same issue with Windows 11 Home using Ext2FSD. Although it was working fine on Windows 11 Pro on my other laptop. Then I used the software suggested in this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/11pkgjv/comment/jbzkshy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
YTriom1@reddit
I found a new app which is better
Paragon Linux File Systems for Windows
4r7if3x@reddit
I can recommend Linux File System for Windows by Paragon.
unflushable1@reddit
Had to scroll down through so many useless discussion threads to finally find something that works and is not even upvoted
jebidiaGA@reddit
How is the performance of this? in read and write?
PossiblyLinux127@reddit
Why ext4 in Windows?
I would go for btrfs, zfs or xfs if anything
LiveLM@reddit
Winbtrfs has been almost unusable for me, I wouldn't recommend it.
In particular this nasty bug.
Warrentheo1@reddit
The latest versions are working pretty well for me at this point... I build the driver into the offline install image for all my windows boxes... I am continuously wondering why there is not an ext2/3/4 equivalent driver for windows that just installs as an INF file and doesn't need all the malarky with ext4fsd...
gabriel_3@reddit
This is a post for r/windows.
akik@reddit (OP)
How many people in /r/windows do you think even know what ext4 is?
gabriel_3@reddit
Almost the same number of people in here: Linux and Windows users, like gamers, IT pro, tech savvy hobbiests and whoever.
How many Linux users in here do you think could be interested in mounting Ext4 on Windows?
khonager@reddit
everyone that dualboots and has some problems with formats. And percentage wise dualbooters on here are higher than on windows. But I get your point. Windows problems in windows subreddit. But since the format is ext4 it is more likely for linux users who sometimes have to use windows to have that problem.
gabriel_3@reddit
This your opinion.
GNU/Linux users run Windows VM and compatibility tools. Why? To avoid computer reboots and the damages that Windows updates sometimes do.
Dualbooters are Windows users sometime running Linux for testing.
Definitively not.
GNU/Linux users sometimes sharing data with Windows use Windows friendly file systems, easier and more straightforward.
Windows users in the need of reading Ext4 could find useful the post.
That's it.
Own_Royal7023@reddit
wow this is the most childish thing ive read in a minute
deleted_by_reddit@reddit
You can mount ext4 filesystems using wsl2 and then access it through the exported windows
linuxspecial directory in explorerEDIT to add getting direct access to raw devices to work with is a bit tricker though (but you didn't ask that :-) )
Second Edit to show some instructions I just found which also include raw disk details
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/access-linux-filesystems-in-windows-and-wsl-2/
maselkowski@reddit
Major drawback is that it require phisical disk to mount it. It's also mentioned at the end of linked blog post.
Im doomed with one nvme slot:/
moster3@reddit
Format to exFAT :)