Do people actually get mad over that? Why?
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I feel like the only people who actually care are the type who wrap their entire personality around which OS they use
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.
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So tell me, what do you call the object drawn in this picture, taken from a popular Linux operating system?
Say my name.
Evil GUI bloat
The ugly truth.
It's a file.
Everything is a file!!
This mouse? Believe it or not, file.
/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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The academic truth.
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.
βI use Linux as my operating system,β 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. βActually,β he says with a grin, βLinux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux.β I donβt miss a beat and reply with a smirk, βI use Alpine, a distro that doesnβt include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. Itβs Linux, but itβs not GNU+Linux.β
The smile quickly drops from the manβs 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 βI-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS ITβS STILL GNU!β Coolly, I reply: βIf Windows was compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?β I interrupt his response with βAnd work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you wonβt be for long.β
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the manβs life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. Iβve womansplained him to death.
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HΓ€ngeregister.
And I think that's beautiful.
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interchange them constantly , sometimes in the same sentence and watch the rage build
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.
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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.
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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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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You're all wrong. The official term is "foldirectory".
This is correct. Folded directory.
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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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But they're called both in all operating systems. Windows command line has a dir command.
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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I am always conflicted because I can never tell if the person I am talking to know what a directory is.
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.
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