Folder : linuxmemes

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 117 points 11 months ago

Do people actually get mad over that? Why?

[-] lp0101@lemmy.world 137 points 11 months ago

I feel like the only people who actually care are the type who wrap their entire personality around which OS they use

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 60 points 11 months ago

"I use arch btw"

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 39 points 11 months ago

[-] raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Arch is bloat, I use Linux from scratch (by the way)

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

AkTuAlLy iT's GnU + linUX

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 32 points 11 months ago

"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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[-] croobat@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

AkTuAlLy iT's pRonouNCeD gUh-N0ME

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 102 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So tell me, what do you call the object drawn in this picture, taken from a popular Linux operating system?

A picture of a folder icon from Ubuntu

Say my name.

[-] raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi 107 points 11 months ago

Evil GUI bloat

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

The ugly truth.

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 70 points 11 months ago

It's a file.

[-] DrTeeth@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

Everything is a file!!

[-] PixelProf@lemmy.ca 48 points 11 months ago

This mouse? Believe it or not, file.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 11 months ago

/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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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

The academic truth.

[-] fuckerheader@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[-] complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

“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 as he drop 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 if you were correct, you won’t 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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[-] leo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

Hängeregister.

And I think that's beautiful.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

𝒟𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎

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[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 100 points 11 months ago

interchange them constantly , sometimes in the same sentence and watch the rage build

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago

I call them folders (especially with normies) with no regret. Fight me!

[-] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 42 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

You're all wrong. The official term is "foldirectory".

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

This is correct. Folded directory.

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[-] guriinii@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

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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[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 29 points 11 months ago

Alternatively you fully commit to it and alias cf to cd

[-] red@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago

First you need mkfol, otherwise you can't cf anywhere

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[-] donut4ever@lemm.ee 25 points 11 months ago

I say folder when I'm in gui environment and directory when in console. Win win

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

But they're called both in all operating systems. Windows command line has a dir command.

[-] erici@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago

Amiga Workbench called them drawers. I'm sticking with drawers.

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[+] Dnn@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

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[-] zalack@kbin.social 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Folders. At least to the end-user. Under the hood it's Unix, so it wouldn't be wrong to call them directories either.

[-] DontMakeItTim@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

I feel like referring to folders as users would cause a lot of unnecessary confusion.

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[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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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[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I am always conflicted because I can never tell if the person I am talking to know what a directory is.

[-] Badland9085@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Everything is an inode :P

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[-] SapienSRC@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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.