If I'm browsing in a GUI they're folders. If I'm using a CLI they're directories. Except when I decide to do the opposite in either situation. Everything I do is the correct method and the only people who are wrong are whoever disagree with me. Unless they're hot.
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That's idiotic. We all know it's a file, everything's a FILE!
Would that make linux users filephiles?
Tbf Dolphin calls them folders
And every Linux directory icon is a folder. This is a non issue.
Shhhh the CLI purists haven't figured out what icons are yet.
You mean those religious pictures old Italian and Russian people have?
Gooey? Sounds gross
yeah i much prefer see L eyes
oh oh! Are those the extra logos and things added by nerdfonts?
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All hail our dolphin overloads
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Anyone gives me a hard time about that, Iβm reverting to Amiga and calling it a βdrawerβ
i just call 'em all "that fuckin' thing" and if anyone complains, they can talk to this guy
something very similar in mainframe land where they call files "datasets." if you call a dataset a file, get ready to get an earfull!
which is ironic considering IBM themselves often call them files and one of the most popular dataset utilities is called FileAid. but if we acknowledge that, we lose a valuable opportunity to belittle and exclude newcomers
In AWS S3, they're objects, not files. But you upload files to objects. And can download an object to a file. But they're not files. Trust me bro.
You know, the same deal kind of applies about "losing newcomers". Because I avooded using AWS because everything seemed cryptic and weird with its terminology. So other companies got my business.
Cryptic and weird and their documentation is the worst.
avooded
Awoooo!
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Itβs called gatekeeping. You wouldnβt get it.
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When you accidentally say "deck" instead of "library" in your MTG group
Only the 1337 know that they're really called "stores". That's why the command ls exists: list stores.
Obviously I'm kidding. It's short for list, somehow. Just remove that unnecessary IT.
it doesn't matter, we can live with just ls
Ah the good ol' "let's abbreviate O_CREATE into O_CREAT"
or unmount into umount...
File and Folder are quicker to type. So I type that.
Call them inodes and see what happens next
An inode is not a folder it's metadata for a folder OR a file.
It would be more correct to say all folders are txt files
An inode is not a folder it's metadata for a folder OR a file.
Demonstrating the parentβs point in real time.
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Don't care, KDE says "create new folder", it's a folder.
I use directory and folder interchangeably
I got binders full of .txt files.
Just call it a 'container object' and you can be technically correct in almost every context.
See also: in SQL and Dataverse, a row is called a 'record', but in SharePoint and Lists, a row is called an 'item', and MAN do people get all pissy if you get them mixed up or refer to it as a 'row'.
It's even more aggravating when you understand that 1) they're all different implementations of the 'table' data structure, so the term is still accurate; 'records' and 'items' are just subsets of 'rows', and 2) SharePoint and Lists are just SQL on the backend anyway.
Like, obviously you knew what I meant, but how is your ego gonna get stroked unless you preach about pedantic details that don't matter?
For what it's worth, they're referred to as directories by command prompt and PowerShell (effectively the new Windows command prompt) tools as Windows as well.
And always had been in DOS before Windows.
Folder is just an easier concept for the average person to grok, so I say folder to them.
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I call them "bags of holding" because their capacity is undefined.
Theyβre called files!
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