Directory is four syllables. Folder is two. Shorter wins.
Most file managers on Linux, like GNOME or KDE have the option “New Folder”. It’s fine to use them interchangeably, y’all.
imo, directory refers to the filesystem concept, folder refers to the UI concept
Yeah, but if the UI refers to the same file system’s directories also as folders, why do people get so bent out of shape when you call them either?
Everyone’s gotta have a hobby.
In spanish wy kind of use both interchangeably… carpeta, directorio.
This meme came JUST right in time, as my blood alcohol leves reach appropriate leveleles.
I say ‘drawer’ 😏
I feel this deep. Coming around full circle over the past 30-odd years.
Cutting my teeth mucking around and learning DOS 5 with friends on my families first PC, they were directories. Migrating to a support career where everything is stored in folders and now coming out the other side abandoning windows altogether and I’m back to calling everything directories again!
Yep and don’t get me started on object storage where everything is a prefix
Speak for yourself; for me everything is a path now ^^
all paths lead to gnome
In KDE, when right-click menu gives you an option for a new “folder”. I will call it a folder.
The Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has “Create Folder…” under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.
Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both “directory” and “folders”.
man lsuses “directory” only tho, and of coursemkdir.Thunar also calls them folders in the properties window.
And most Linux icon themes visually represent them with a file cabinet folder image…
linux users when they walk into a room:
ls
windows users when they walk into a room
DIR
I guess most Windows users don’t know what DIR is or even where to use it.
“Do you use DIR?”
User: “Do I use what? And don’t call me dear.”Opening a folder in Explorer automatically shows the contents, saving the need for an extra step.
Here is a container of DIR.
Which is called a pen! Hmmm.
dir/w/p dude
i ain’t read fast enough to use dir. and i ain’t use a vertical monitor with my CLI
cdlslsWhat was I doing again?
lslsdYou start tripping out
At least both sides agree that the big piece of silicon wafer inside the PC is called the motherboard, and not some deranged bougie term like logic board… 🤦
Motherboard made more sense when there were daughterboards.
At this point without that the term is much more meaningless compared to alternatives like System board or Main logic board.
or just mainboard.
just call it a mobo and let future generations wonder
The biggest silicon wafer is going to be your CPU or GPU. The motherboard is mostly fiberglass and copper.
Uhm, ackshually, the motherboard is fiberglass, a.k.a. GRP, with copper traces imprinted on it.
System board (at least for laptops)
“I’ll show you my tiny wand”
I put on my robe and coding hat
I pronounce “folder” the same way I pronounce “solder”, cuz I’m just badass that way.
Wait, how else do you pronounce it?
Americans say solder as sorder for some reason.
I have also heard it as Sodder, especially when they say ‘soddering iron’. Makes my eye twitch
I’m an American, let me help. It’s pronounced saw-dur.
Folder rhymes with solder the way solder rhymes with smolder.
Getting colder.
When you call it the windows key
Microsoft is the one that forced manufacturers to add it, or they couldn’t advertise their keyboard as being “Designed for Windows 95”, as it is required for the shortcuts (e.g win + d shows the desktop). The “Menu” key was added at the same time so that the Win 95 UI could be navigated without a mouse.
Now they are going the same with the CoPilot key. And poorly - Windows keys send keycode 0x5B and 0x5C. Menu sends 0x5D.
The CoPilot key? Left Shift + Windows + F23, obviously.There’s another name for the windows key?
Super or Meta is and Mac calls it command key
meta is the alt key (option on Macs)
I fairly sure I’ve seen various *nix tools call it super, meta, and hyper. I think super is the most correct but I’ve seen all three
i call it the “fuck your game” key
Super and Meta refer to two different keys from olden times that no longer appear on mainstream keyboards. So they are emulated using a convenient proxy.
It’s most common on Gnome to use the Windows key for Super, while Meta is set by user preference, often to Left Alt.
Super and Meta have different functions and are not interchangeable, though two given users may map the windows key to one or other.
I bought tux stickers to stick them onto the windows icon of my keyboard. However it is a lighted one. So you had tux on top and in a red light the windows icon shined through. It was even more cursed that way.
What? You expect me to use “Super” out there in the wild and not look crazy?
Me, earlier today, referring to Niri as a desktop instead of a “window manager,” which is also wrong as it’s a Wayland compositor.
“Task Manager, my beloved”
“I’m System Monitor now” (Arch+KDE)
“Apologies. System Monitor, my beloved”
Also, the bottom bar with icons and stuff is called “Task Manager” on KDE, which is mildly confusing
Too late, you’re gonna get corrected by 4 people
