So tell me, what do you call the object drawn in this picture, taken from a popular Linux operating system?
Say my name.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Evil GUI bloat
The ugly truth.
It's a file.
Everything is a file!!
This mouse? Believe it or not, file.
/dev/input/mouse0 or whatever number you may have if for some reason you have more of them. Plus the always present /dev/input/mice shared between all mouse devices.
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Computer mouse or live mouse? Yes
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The academic truth.
Hängeregister.
And I think that's beautiful.
This is an array of pretty pixels laid out in a fashion to appeal to the human eyes.
... You are a folder.
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I call them folders (especially with normies) with no regret. Fight me!
I use them interchangeably and I've never had a layperson get that glassy eyed stare they get when I talk about IT stuff they don't understand.
I call the top level hierarchy directories directories. Eg /, bin, boot, lib, var, etc. All directories.
I generally refer to directories within them as folders.
A folder is the visual representation of a directory. A reasonable desktop GUI exposes the underlying files & directories as file icons and directory windows. If your abstraction leaks, that's a bug in your code, not something to beat the other guy up with. It is quite possible to be both a Linux dork and a classic Mac dork.
I've literally executed code with &!&
Explain logic to me again?
First shalt thou take out the Holy Filter. Then shalt thou Internet four porn, no more, no less. Four shall be the number thou shalt porn, and the porn of the Internet shall be four. Five shalt thou not porn, neither Internet thou three porn, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Six is right out. Once the number four, being the relationship of porn to the Internet, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall wank off.
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Do people actually get mad over that? Why?
I feel like the only people who actually care are the type who wrap their entire personality around which OS they use
AkTuAlLy iT's GnU + linUX
"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux."
The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
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I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.
I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.
The only people that get upset over it are those whose entire personality are based on superficial bullshit like this because they don't have a personality, or just want to feel superior to someone else, or both.
I've been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades, and using it period since it was hard to install and Slackware came in the mail on ~50 floppy disks. There is not enough "Get off my lawn" in the world for those people.
I'll call the path container whatever I damned well please.
It's like GUID vs. UUID, for most contexts they have the same meaning. Then if the difference matters either the audience already knows this or the speaker needs to be very clear that they are using one meaning over the other.
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But they're called both in all operating systems. Windows command line has a dir command.
Amiga Workbench called them drawers. I'm sticking with drawers.
You can also call your underpants that
I use both terms. If I'm accessing it from a GUI, it's a folder. From the command line, it's a directory.
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interchange them constantly , sometimes in the same sentence and watch the rage build
I started out in the 90's calling them directories and still do for the most part. However, if I'm speaking to the average person I get a strange look when I say directory.
I think when I'm in terminal I call them directories but otherwise I'll click and open a folder in my file manager
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I went from MacOS and Linux to an IT firm that primarily supported Windows devices. Folder worked its way into my vocab. I'm rehabilitating my mind.
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