Tbf Dolphin calls them folders

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

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.

Call them inodes and see what happens next

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?

Anyone gives me a hard time about that, I’m reverting to Amiga and calling it a “drawer”

That's idiotic. We all know it's a file, everything's a FILE!

Don't care, KDE says "create new folder", it's a folder.

You'll pry my old outdated terminology from my cold dead hands lol

I use directory and folder interchangeably

I got binders full of .txt files.

They’re called files!

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.

I call them "bags of holding" because their capacity is undefined.

ZFS head correcting you to "dataset"