Specifying file paths

This meme is way more clever than it should be

I hate that I need to use escape characters when creating something for windows.

Fun fact, though: Linux is the only case-sensitive one.

Edit: I feel silly for forgetting that it's all about the choice of FS. If anyone needs anything from me, I'll be in the corner, coloring.

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

Also the internet belongs on the left.

And really, Linux/macos could be reduced to "Unix" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg

File systems aren't even real.

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

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

Would it be more efficient to say Unix vs Windows?

Why fight when you can just do cd /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/

Duel of the fates: \//\

I don't get it

Both works fine in Windows tho?

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?

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.

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?!

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also applies to unix vs dos

I love linux like a pet. I love windows like my car. Can we stop with this pointless making a content mountain over any insignificant difference. Don't get me started

The big reveal comes when you realise the paths are in fact, relative.