linux users when they walk into a room:
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windows users when they walk into a room
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Me, earlier today, referring to Niri as a desktop instead of a "window manager," which is also wrong as it's a Wayland compositor.
In KDE, when right-click menu gives you an option for a new "folder". I will call it a folder.
At least both sides agree that the big piece of silicon wafer inside the PC is called the motherboard, and not some deranged bougie term like logic board... π€¦
Motherboard made more sense when there were daughterboards.
At this point without that the term is much more meaningless compared to alternatives like System board or Main logic board.
Uhm, ackshually, the motherboard is fiberglass, a.k.a. GRP, with copper traces imprinted on it.
System board (at least for laptops)
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
Too late, you're gonna get corrected by 4 people