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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)
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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is fair, I confused support with making windows run on them rather than being able to just read and write to them.

That is my mistake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

proof of concept installing windows on btrfs. It just requires an alternative bootloader

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Very interesting, thank you for sharing, I thought NTFS was so ingrained in Windows that it could bot run on anything else.