linuxmemes

the linux-file-deletion is used as a example for good software design. It has a very simple interface with little room for error while doing exactly what the caller intended.

In John Ousterhout's "software design philosophy" a chapter is called "define errors out of existence". In windows "delete" is defined as "the file is gone from the HDD". So it must wait for all processes to release that file. In Linux "unlink" is defined as "the file can't be accessed anymore". So the file is gone from the filesystem immediately and existing file-handles from other processes will life on.

The trade-off here is: "more errors for the caller of delete" vs "more errors due to filehandles to dead files". And as it turns out, the former creates issues for both developers and for users, while the later creates virtually no errors in practice.

I like the windows delete philosophy of asking me before I delete something.

I fucking hate the windows delete philosophy of telling me I don't have access after I said yes.

I'm this close to daily driving as Sadmin

One drive has a trash for the trash. I’m still not convinced those files are gone after the 2nd empty, I think they just don’t show the other trash cans

GUI file managers generally have "Trash" feature as well.

The windows shell has really gone downhill in recent years, with spontaneous file locks and random hangs

It's always the AV...

I'm so annoyed when I tell rm to delete a terabyte of data and it's nowhere near instant. I'd have probably gone insane if I was using Windows.

Left side: I regularly go bowling with the demon core

Right side: I have read the demon core’s wiki 314 times

I never deleted my root system with rm but I did dd go sda instead of sdb and ended up losing my data.

gio trash

Now wonder, which one is will be preferred by people who aren't tech savvy.

If you're going for cli, windows also can do rm -r -Force

backups / btrfs snapshots

Every time I see I've of these memes my mind goes straight to infomercials.

Oh well. Didn't really like my mum that much anyways 😢

One of my first experiences with Linux at university was watching a classmate install Slackware, and then (for a laugh) dragging everything into the recycle bin.

They got a passing grade, because the lecturer saw their working installation, but they learned a valuable lesson in Linux that if you delete something, it'll fucking delete it.

Is that actually true? Does Windows check every file with Defender before deleting it?