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The Cool Blog
Personal blog · lilysthings.org/blogsystems
The Cool Blog is a personal blog at lilysthings.org about systems. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Windows on Btrfs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's post on running Windows from a Btrfs filesystem, in threads on Windows NT versus Unix design, Linux filesystems and distro layouts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Windows on Btrfs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-21
- Childhood Computing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-10
- Tiling Window Managers on macOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-20
- Linux on the 7th Generation of Consoles Part 1: Xbox 3602 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-04
- Dial-Up over a Discord Call2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-22
- Daily Driving Windows Vista in 20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-17
What Hacker News says?
These days there is a full native Btrfs implementation for Windows. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs It's complete enough you can boot and run Windows from Btrfs. https://lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ I wonder how many of these limitations affect this, notably performance. If WSL1 could natively talk to Btrfs without the performance-sapping translation to NTFS, would that resolve the poor Git performanc…
Comment linking /blog/windows-on-btrfs/
on “Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison”Submitted Degoogled Android – My Experience as a story · 86 points
HN discussion> Of course distro-hoppers are going to struggle to understand how their distros work! To distro-hop is to enact a commitment to not understanding your distro!! Fair point. :-) > I what that generational gap says for the viability (in terms of user acceptance) of the Nix store in all its ugly glory in the future. I think there's a word, or several, or maybe just a letter or two, missing here. But yes, I thought of t…
Comment linking /blog/windows-on-btrfs/
on “GoboLinux”Submitted "It's not that bad" they told me – Coreboot as a story · 53 points
HN discussionIn the 90ies Linux could be the guest on MS-DOS/Windows' native filesystem (UMSDOS). In the 20ies, Windows can be the guest on one of Linux' native filesystems (BTRFS). https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ Also, semi-related, over twenty years ago you could run Windows 9x on Linux extremely fast without a VM: https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netrav... The technology was based on SC…
Comment linking /blog/windows-on-btrfs/
on a deleted threadSubmitted No Data Lasts Forever as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Windows 7 as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dial-Up over a Discord Call as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux on the 7th Generation of Consoles Part 1: Xbox 360 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows on Btrfs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 2000 Networking Shenanigans Part 1: Getting the Damn OS Installed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Childhood Computing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nintendo Video for 3DS and Lost Media as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tiling Window Managers on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dial-Up over a Discord Call as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daily Driving FreeBSD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux on the 7th Generation of Consoles Part 2: Playstation 3 and Gentoo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Childhood Computing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tiling Window Managers on macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The macOS Blog Post (Ft. Hackintosh) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daily Driving Windows Vista in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daily Driving Windows Vista in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux on Xbox 360 as a story · 1 points
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