• Shardikprime@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 hours ago

    When you migrate the filesystem from a windows to Linux installation and hours later you can’t find anything

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    222·
    2 days ago

    I don’t really watch Star Wars. I’m a more of a Trekkie gal.

    🖖

    See, you can separate files both ways as long as it’s logical

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    51·
    2 days ago

    The number of times I had to ask “how can I tell where the file ‘physically’” (I know) “lives” on the network when I took up work at a Windows shop, it was just baffling. And Win people couldn’t understand what I was asking.

    There’s a location for this effing thing. I want to know where it is, really! How do I get that info?!

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      It’s not Win people. It is dumb people.

      Any Infrastructure IT guy can tell you where specific files are stored, it is their job. Whether they mainly use Windows, Mac or Linux doesn’t matter.

    • Venator@lemmy.nz
      4·
      1 day ago

      Physically, it’s probably on your hdd or ssd. Or possibly just in ram or a data center somewhere 😜

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 days ago

          I realized immediately, read the comment, and then went back to look for a deeper meaning. It wasn’t there.

        • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 days ago

          JFC, thank you. I didn’t realize until it was spelled out for me. I’m definitely not that kind of smart.

          This is why I always sucked at games like Myst

          • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Myst and Riven are two of my favorite games of all time. Give Myst another go if you’ve never finished it. After you complete the game, you unlock the “making of Myst” videos. The red and blue brothers in the videos are the two creators. They were independent developers in the 90s, so they made do with what they had. At one point they shove a rubber hose into a toilet to make the atmospheric bubbling sounds.

            • frezik@midwest.social
              3·
              20 hours ago

              It’s a beautiful, clever, and groundbreaking game. Its puzzles, however, are taken in game design as an example of what not to do.

              The clocktower combination puzzle, in particular, still makes me angry.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          41·
          2 days ago

          I realized immediately, read the comment, and then went back to look for a deeper meaning. It wasn’t there.

  • RedSnt@feddit.dk
    81·
    2 days ago

    If you know what a nordic keyboard layout looks like, you’d probably prefer backslash. Since I moved to Linux a year ago I’ve been struggling to find the easiest way to forward slash. Shift + 7? Or numpad / with my right pinky?

    • dan@upvote.au
      41·
      2 days ago

      Get a macro pad and configure one button to type a forward slash.

      How do you type URLs using that keyboard layout?

      • RedSnt@feddit.dk
        6·
        2 days ago

        Shift+7 feels wrong for some reason, so I currently tend to just send my pinky on a kamikaze mission towards the numpad hoping I hit /. Sometimes I hit numlock, sometimes I hit *.
        Even if I made a compose key “shortcut” via ~/.XCompose it’d still be more work than what I’m doing already.

        Macro pad could be a solution, I have considered it beforehand for other purposes tbh

    • JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Had a similar struggle with the German layout, but in the meantime I have moved to the “EURKey” layout. It is built in to many distros and available for Windows and Mac. It mimics a US layout while still having all the äüöß (and much more) I could ever need. Though I will say it’s only really worth it if you’re in IT or similar where you frequently need certain symbols.

      • RedSnt@feddit.dk
        2·
        11 hours ago

        That’s not a bad shout at all. It does hide æøå on weird keys though, would take a lot of practice to get used to that, but I’ll definitely put that layout into the layout rotation, thanks for the suggestion.

    • bricked@feddit.orgDeutsch
      7·
      2 days ago

      For me it’s even worse. Forward slash is also Shift + 7 and backslash is AltGr + ß?? I hate that computing is only optimized for US american layouts. Going by my keyboard, the filepath separator should probably be an ö.

      • RedSnt@feddit.dk
        1·
        2 days ago

        The alt gr + ß is probably the same for nordic keyboards, the one below A. It’s <>\ for me, but afaik both < and > are also individual keys on a US keyboard. And then there’s ~. But I guess you get used to dead keys.

  • pelya@lemmy.world
    58·
    2 days ago

    You can actually use / as a path separator on Windows in functions like fopen(), because it supports some ancient version of POSIX standard.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      36·
      2 days ago

      There used to be an undocumented setting in early versions of MS-DOS that would allow the setting of the command option character to something other than the slash, and if you did that, the slash automatically became the path separator. All you needed was SWITCHAR=- in your CONFIG.SYS and DOS was suddenly very Unix-y.

      It was taken out after a while because, with the feature being undocumented, too many people didn’t know about it and bits of software - especially batch files, would have been reliant on things being “wrong”. The modern support for regular slash in API calls probably doesn’t use any of the old SWITCHAR code, but it is, in some way, the spiritual descendant of that secret feature.

      Here’s an old blog that talks about it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/larryosterman/why-is-the-dos-path-character

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 days ago

      The one thing about NT was that it didn’t have it’s own semantics, but it could emulate any system you wanted. It’s the unofficial successor of an OS that was based on creating VMs where you could run any other OS you want.

      Then Microsoft decided to create their own system in it, and only really finished writing that one.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 days ago

      What is this “real” concept anyway?

      Adam Savage famously stated on Mythbusters “I reject your reality and substitute my own”

      Sure, but is reality even real then? Is anything real?

      Not that I meant to get all pop-philosophical on this beautiful Sunday morning, sorry about that.

      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yes

        Interpretation of reality is individual

        Reality itself is relative

        But if it didn’t exist we wouldn’t be chatting about it right now

        That’s my reality anyway

        What’s yours?

      • GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 days ago

        I, too, first heard this quote from Adam on Mythbusters as a child. But, I’m pretty sure I also heard it was said first by some philosopher.

        I would later be informed that “some philosopher” was the 1984 film The Dungeon Master.

        Only apparently that was not the first, and it was said in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. Well, someone on Reddit said that, and linked to this WikiQuote page but on that page it also says it’s from The Dungeon master.

        So, I don’t know what to believe any more, and I still hope it was actually an obscure lost quote of Rene Magritte or something because in my head it would just make sense.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      72·
      2 days ago

      Linux uses forward slash. Windows uses backslash. Because some dude 45 years ago wanted to make it look different from UNIX.

        • __nobodynowhere@startrek.websiteEnglish
          21·
          2 days ago

          DOS originally didn’t even support directories but was using / for command line arguments. They didn’t want to change the option character and break stuff so they went with \ as the directory separator.

          DOS wasn’t originally created by Microsoft. They bought the OS from computer shop in Seattle.

        • PNW_Doug@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 days ago

          They did! And I weirdly kind of miss them for the entirely non-logical reason that they looked elegant.

          Don’t get me wrong, I adapted in about 3 seconds when I made the switch to Mac OS X 25 years ago, but I irrationally kinda miss them just a tiny bit.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        115·
        1 day ago

        I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering 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!

        • mrkite@programming.dev
          3·
          12 hours ago

          There are several linux systems that don’t use GNU. Android for one. Alpine (everyone’s favorite docker image) for two. ChromeOS for three.

        • stetech@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 hours ago

          No, Richard, it’s ‘Linux’, not ‘GNU/Linux’. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

          Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

          One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS – more on this later). He named it ‘Linux’ with a little help from his friends. Why doesn’t he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff – including the software I wrote using GCC – and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don’t want to be known as a nag, do you?

          (An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title ‘GNU/Linux’ (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

          Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn’t the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you’ve heard this one before. Get used to it. You’ll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

          You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn’t more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn’t perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

          Last, I’d like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn’t be fighting among ourselves over naming other people’s software. But what the heck, I’m in a bad mood now. I think I’m feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn’t you and everyone refer to GCC as ‘the Linux compiler’? Or at least, ‘Linux GCC’? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

          If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

          Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux’ huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don’t be a nag.

          Thanks for listening.

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
    6·
    13 hours ago

    Ohhhhh… I fucking hate this. I use Windows locally, but I do support for a render farm that runs on Linux. The number of times I have recieved “it works locally” tickets from an artist who decided to get clever and embed Windows paths in string literals in their scene makes me want to punch a puppy. They don’t even look at the application logs we provide to see that the paths threw errors. We handle repointing their file paths with symlinks normally, but when they use literals it literally fucks the system with escapes. I will never understand why Microsoft refuses to standardize to POSIX with the rest of the world. Aside from them being a US company with decision makers who still think freedom units make sense.

  • yeather@lemmy.ca
    31·
    2 days ago

    Shouldn’t the blade be green? I thought Luke wore all black in ROTJ when he got hos green lightsaber.