You make and use folders
I make directories and call them folders anyway
We are not the same
Both are noobs. Its Linux, they’re all files!
I mix and match. I used to have an Amiga back in the day, and they were called directories there. As such, most of my parlance is from those days. But most of my work life has been on Windows. So, folder has sneaked into everyday usage.
I have been switching a number of computers over to Linux over the last few months in preparation for the end of Windows 10. But honestly shit like this that makes me think, maybe Windows 11 isn’t so bad?
🙄
Have you ever actually seen someone care about that particular choice of terminology, without being sarcastic trying to be funny?
apple users
What terminology do Apple users passionately care about?
devices not being called laptop or pc
I mean, calling them Mac(Book) does clarify that they run macOS. And historically „Mac and PC“ have been used to differentiate between Windows and macOS, not just by Mac users. Never met anyone who persisted on MacBooks not being laptops. People just call them MacBooks because that’s what they are…
TBF, most of the time (with a small exception for the period from 2006 to 2020ish) it would have been wrong to call a Mac a PC, as PC (and PC compatible) is the name of a specific platform based on the 8086 and compatible processors with a specific BIOS and a specific IO-interfaces. And Mac’s most of the time are not PC compatible. And I’ve never heard anyone say, that a MacBook is not a laptop.
As an IT guy in the early 2000s, it was really annoying to see all the “Mac vs. PC” arguments. PC stands for Personal Computer - a Mac is literally a PC! When I was a kid in the '80s-'90s, my schools all used Apple IIe computers (and later versions of Apple products as I got older), but they always called them PCs.
But those Apple ads convincing people to ditch the frumpy old guy PC for the young, hot Mac guy did their job, and pop culture decided that a Mac wasn’t a PC.
PC stands for Personal Computer, but that doesn’t mean that every personal computer is a PC. Just as VW stands for Volkswagen but not every wagon used by folks is a VW.
Calling any personal computer PC would cause all sorts of confusion, as PCs are able to run specific pieces of software (which were literally marketed as »PC 3,5"«, »PC CD ROM« or something of the like) such as »PC (or MS) DOS«, Windows etc. It would have been pretty annoying if someone sold you a game, telling you that it runs on PCs, leaving it to you to guess which kind of personal computer they meant: Atari ST, Apple II, C64, or IBM PC. All of them are personal computers, but only the PC is a PC.
Btw, all that was set in stone already in the 1980s and 1990, decades before Apple launched the Mac Vs. PC campaign in 2006. If your teacher called an Apple IIe PC, he was wrong about that, even before it was cool.
Tired of users’ elitism? Get some corporate elitism instead!
What’s wrong babe? We’ve just moved your taskbar, created one another directories for program files and documents, and renamed This Computer to Our Computer. It’s not a big deal!
[Whole discord begins screeching like a parrot store]
Discord? For Linux communities? Linux communities usually like to stick to non-proprietary solutions.
My beard isn’t big enough for those ones
Funny!!! I love Harry potter and Hagrid is so sweet!
Directory means a listing. You are referring to the list of names of some items.
I’m usually working with folders that actually contain files and other folders. It’s often closed, so the content is not shown. A folder is a container.
Wikipedia clarifies this difference.
A telephone directory does not contain telephones.
a file directory doesent contain anything but adresses aswell
Go down that path and it’s all binary. But users deal with metaphors. And containers are very useful.
alias cf=cdNote: I don’t actually do this. I’m not a monster.
Cloud foundry? Not familiar with cf
Given that
cdis “change directory,” I assumecfis meant to be “change folder.”Yes and it’s telling the computer to treat cf as if it was cd
It’s interesting that Windows also uses cd, even though they call them folders 😂.
Funny how the DOS equivalent of ls is dir, so before the GUI folder metaphor.
Don’t forget cd.
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I only call them by inode. Scoffs
inodes can be files or directories though.
I just learned what an inode is last week so I’m doing my best here.
“Everything is a file.”
meh. folder is 2 syllables, directory is like 4. I’m lazy. If someone gave me a clear one syllable alternative that others would know what I meant (even if while cringing), i’d probably start using that instead. I’ve tried just “dir”, but no one ever knows wtf i’m saying.
I like how you put things.
While conversing with Linux users, they should know what dir means… I mean, even if they don’t use the terminal that often, dir is often used in GUIs as well in Linux.
I might should clarify that when using “dir” verbally no one knows what I’m saying, but maybe how I pronounce it in my head isn’t how everyone else does, lol. In text it’s plenty clear, imo.
Oh, yeah, in that case it does make sense 😁.
I just use “dir” about 90% of the time.
Yep, while this meme is funny and in jest. If someone actually seriously gave me shit for saying “folder” or “directory” I would have to ask them what Stallman’s toe nails actually taste like. Because that is up there with his level of being rigid about something that I just can’t stand.
I do agree, but I do double check how I wrote and what I wrote when replying on GitHub 😁.
everything in my home directory is a folder, everything outside of that is a directory
And interestingly enough the home directory itself falls outside of itself
Utterly mind-shattering revelation
threatening to open a folder
Meh, I dont care. If they used a word that wasn’t directly linked to the concept then I might care.
Likewise, we all know what it means, regardless if you say it like this or that.
