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.
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.
No, ls is an abbreviation of look shit (up)
Ah the good ol' "let's abbreviate O_CREATE into O_CREAT"
or unmount into umount...
it doesn't matter, we can live with just ls
When you accidentally say "deck" instead of "library" in your MTG group
When you accidentally call a hero a "champion" in your dota group
File and Folder are quicker to type. So I type that.
That's idiotic. We all know it's a file, everything's a FILE!
Would that make linux users filephiles?
Filephilefiles
Anyone gives me a hard time about that, I’m reverting to Amiga and calling it a “drawer”
i just call 'em all "that fuckin' thing" and if anyone complains, they can talk to this guy
I use directory and folder interchangeably
Don't care, KDE says "create new folder", it's a folder.
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.
Gooey? Sounds gross
yeah i much prefer see L eyes
You mean those religious pictures old Italian and Russian people have?
oh oh! Are those the extra logos and things added by nerdfonts?
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 parent’s point in real time.
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.
There is a reason for that since S3 is not block storage and doesn't have a Hierarchal filesystem. That's why when you create folder in the S3 console what you are really creating is a prefix meaning its just a placeholder to auto add the prefix string to the beginning of all objects. But all objects in the bucket are flat when it comes to the API. Plus the way the files are stored in the shards in S3. You can limit Throughput by treating prefixes like a hierarchical filesystem too much.
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.
It’s called gatekeeping. You wouldn’t get it.
I got binders full of .txt files.
You'll pry my old outdated terminology from my cold dead hands lol
I call them "bags of holding" because their capacity is undefined.
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.
Hint: :q!
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