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.
The academic truth.
Everything is a file!!
This mouse? Believe it or not, file.
Hängeregister.
And I think that's beautiful.
I call them icons
I call them yaru-icons. Just for all my Linux buddies without ubuntu.
interchange them constantly , sometimes in the same sentence and watch the rage build
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
"I use arch btw"
Arch is bloat, I use Linux from scratch (by the way)
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.
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 had a new employee ask me what I meant when I used the word directory. They had never heard 'directory' used in that context. It has only been known as a folder to some people.
I think when I'm in terminal I call them directories but otherwise I'll click and open a folder in my file manager
Do the power move and call them dictionaries.
Alternatively you fully commit to it and alias cf to cd
I use both terms. If I'm accessing it from a GUI, it's a folder. From the command line, it's a directory.
Yeah i get this
You're all wrong. The official term is "foldirectory".
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.
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.