In KDE, when right-click menu gives you an option for a new “folder”. I will call it a folder.
linux users when they walk into a room:
ls
windows users when they walk into a room
DIR
cdlslsWhat was I doing again?
lslsdYou start tripping out
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 ^^
I honestly like folders better. It’s one of the few good things from windows.
Files are in folders. That makes so much sense.
Yeah directory would make more sense if we’re talking about something that contains phone numbers.
I guess it makes sense to call /proc a directory, but the things under /home? I interact with a lot of that stuff with a file manager and there’s folder icons on them, so…
I use either term. “Directory” is a weird term honestly. I accept it and use it often, but folder finds does make more sense honestly.
Too late, you’re gonna get corrected by 4 people
“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
As an old person who started on MS-DOS, I’ve always said “directory”, and “program”. I had trouble switching to “folder” and then more recently “app”. I’m happy to have switched to Linux a couple of years ago so I can just say directory again. The word app, short for application, came from Apple, with the iPhone. No doubt they also liked that is the first three letters of Apple, too. It was specifically for the little programs that ran on iPhone, not meant to replace “program” across the board. But, here we are. Also, “web app” was used to refer to those websites or pages that worked like apps on iPhones, before apps became commonplace. Now, everything from Notes to Photoshop is an “app”.
I Used to be like this but now I disagree. I intentionally use “folders” instead of Linux directories or gitlab groups.
Folders are distinct and meaningful, while directories and groups have multiple meanings not clear without context.
Me, earlier today, referring to Niri as a desktop instead of a “window manager,” which is also wrong as it’s a Wayland compositor.
Jokes on them, I’ve been a windows guy so long they have always been directories; I started in the dos days.
If I’m dealing with text, it’s a directory. If I’m clicking around, it’s a folder.
In spanish wy kind of use both interchangeably… carpeta, directorio.
“I’ll show you my tiny wand”
This meme came JUST right in time, as my blood alcohol leves reach appropriate leveleles.
