NTFS also has a 260 character path limit [0], which as the sibling comment says can really jam up node_modules and the current HEAD of the intellij-community repo which currently has some giant filename in a subdirectory of its repo

I'm aware of their claim about using Group Policy to remove the limit but I've never used GP in order to know its sharp edges for my gaming computer

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming...