Folder

Do people actually get mad over that? Why?

I feel like the only people who actually care are the type who wrap their entire personality around which OS they use
- "I use arch btw"
- AkTuAlLy iT's GnU + linUX
- Damn that's a lot of Linux users tho
- I think I can speak for all of my fellow MX Fluxbox users when I say:
  Those people are the worst!
- Professionals who use Linux see it as a tool
  Terminally online people who use Linux see it as a personality trait
- I’ve only see people upset on social media/forums.
  ha that checks out. same can be said for most topics 😆
Not mad but it just show that the one asking the question is a newbie.

So tell me, what do you call the object drawn in this picture, taken from a popular Linux operating system?

Say my name.

Evil GUI bloat
- The ugly truth.
It's a file.
- Everything is a file!!
- The academic truth.
- “I use Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually,” he says with a grin, “Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux.” I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.”
  The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply: “If Windows was compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “And work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won’t be for long.”
  With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.
- The recursive truth. 🏆
Hängeregister.
And I think that's beautiful.
𝒟𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎
... You are a folder.
... Directory?
- OK, I see you're having some trouble. No sweat. We're all friends here. Many of us don't get it on the first try. Let me help you. It's a symbolic representation of an actual physical object which you can buy here today. There's a nice description at the store page with the following pic along with it:
I call them yaru-icons. Just for all my Linux buddies without ubuntu.
I call them icons
𝒟𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎

interchange them constantly , sometimes in the same sentence and watch the rage build

I call them folders (especially with normies) with no regret. Fight me!

I use them interchangeably and I've never had a layperson get that glassy eyed stare they get when I talk about IT stuff they don't understand.
I call the top level hierarchy directories directories. Eg /, bin, boot, lib, var, etc. All directories.
I generally refer to directories within them as folders.

A folder is the visual representation of a directory. A reasonable desktop GUI exposes the underlying files & directories as file icons and directory windows. If your abstraction leaks, that's a bug in your code, not something to beat the other guy up with. It is quite possible to be both a Linux dork and a classic Mac dork.

- First shalt thou take out the Holy Filter. Then shalt thou Internet four porn, no more, no less. Four shall be the number thou shalt porn, and the porn of the Internet shall be four. Five shalt thou not porn, neither Internet thou three porn, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Six is right out. Once the number four, being the relationship of porn to the Internet, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall wank off.

I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.

I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.
The only people that get upset over it are those whose entire personality are based on superficial bullshit like this because they don't have a personality, or just want to feel superior to someone else, or both.
I've been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades, and using it period since it was hard to install and Slackware came in the mail on ~50 floppy disks. There is not enough "Get off my lawn" in the world for those people.
I'll call the path container whatever I damned well please.
- It's like GUID vs. UUID, for most contexts they have the same meaning. Then if the difference matters either the audience already knows this or the speaker needs to be very clear that they are using one meaning over the other.
Same, my entire work uses it, with software that primarily targets Linux and coworkers that are as nerdy as it gets. Never heard anyone ever complain about calling folders a folder.

You're all wrong. The official term is "foldirectory".

This is correct. Folded directory.
And when you rmdir it's a foldirectomy
Sounds like a surgical procedure.
So, can we then agree to call it "foldir" from now on?
yeah, because "dir" was never long enough /s

I think when I'm in terminal I call them directories but otherwise I'll click and open a folder in my file manager

Folder = non-hidden directory under /home Directory = everything else
I personally use both completely inconsistently. I'm sure if I searched my commit history I'd be pretty close to uniformly random lol.

Alternatively you fully commit to it and alias cf to cd

First you need mkfol, otherwise you can't cf anywhere
- and don't forger for pwf before you rmfol to make sure you're in the right place, alternatively you can also fol to see where you are
I am idiot. I started searching for what the cf is. "What could it stand for? Carriage f... ffffffffffff... fffff.... FFFFFFFFFFFFF..."

I say folder when I'm in gui environment and directory when in console. Win win

But they're called both in all operating systems. Windows command line has a dir command.

Amiga Workbench called them drawers. I'm sticking with drawers.
- You can also call your underpants that

Folders. At least to the end-user. Under the hood it's Unix, so it wouldn't be wrong to call them directories either.
- I feel like referring to folders as users would cause a lot of unnecessary confusion.
Ultra Storage Units or some ridiculous marketing name
I am pretty sure they mostly call them directories except in the GUI.
- That's what I meant. The GUI is all that 95% of end users interact with.
macOS is actual, certified UNIX. I think they use both for the end user though, in documentation

I use both terms. If I'm accessing it from a GUI, it's a folder. From the command line, it's a directory.

Yeah i get this

I am always conflicted because I can never tell if the person I am talking to know what a directory is.

I started out in the 90's calling them directories and still do for the most part. However, if I'm speaking to the average person I get a strange look when I say directory.

Everything is an inode :P

We should NOT have to go this far!

No no, folders are what s in the directories.

OK, now that actually made me wince.

I went from MacOS and Linux to an IT firm that primarily supported Windows devices. Folder worked its way into my vocab. I'm rehabilitating my mind.

Do the power move and call them dictionaries.

I always liked drawers.
- A Mapper hostage?

I had a new employee ask me what I meant when I used the word directory. They had never heard 'directory' used in that context. It has only been known as a folder to some people.

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Which place?