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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Meanwhile Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No? [A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.
Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Windows is more like, oh that file you saved earlier? Yeah we moved that to OneDrive. You want it back? Sorry didn't pay your OneDrive subscription fee, so you don't actually have that file anymore. Hope it wasn't something irreplaceable like your kid's baby photos or anything lol.
Linux:
ls
cd directory
ls
cd directory2
ls
cd directory3 ...
On linux you don't search, you find
Oh boy do I have a tree to sell you
I really do wish that more packages on Linux had installation paths clearly noted in a readme.
I've been using Linux daily for over a year now and I still have a hard time tracking down config files and install paths. Its just not one of those tasks I do regularly so I always forget best practices when trying to find stuff. The CLI always gives me the best results but getting the commands right can be tedious.
I've started saving useful commands in a note on my desktop.
Which readme?
The one on the github that has out of date instructions and tells you to check the discord?
The 6 year out-of-date one on your distro's wiki?
or The gnu-info/manpage that is only for the original upstream and doesn't tell you where all the files have been moved or that half of the software isn't actually installed since it was split out into extra packages for justdebianthings
dpkg -L package-name
Or the inverse
dpkg -S /usr/bin/somefile
For apt based distros, obviously.
Opens the files app which shows all files that were recently downloaded from any app to the file system.
That's like piling all your paperwork on your office desk in a giant tower in the order they came in and arguing that's just as good as sorting them into files and putting them in the cabinet.
mine doesn't do that. also, what if you're looking for a file that's older than three weeks old? should I go fuck myself then?
Oh, so I am not alone. Good to know, but damn what a crap of "software"
I really lost my shit when Firefox downloaded some Belfort & Lupin subtitles and I could not for the fucking live of me find them.
Turns out it put them in the "Movies" folder instead of "Downloads" where it actually put the corresponding video files.
I find it funny that there's a bunch of people here who know how to use android's file system. Like, of course the Linux nerds figured out how to use it (and I love you all the more for it)
Varies a ton between apps, some use private app storage on Android too (only accessible with root) or in appdata storage (restricted to system apps), or in scattered folders under the regular "user data" folders (easiest by far)
Bonus points if you have an SD card, double bonus points if you manage to have 2 of them, because then you have multiple copies of these standard user data folders
MediaStore recreating the standard Android library folder layout on my SD card no matter how many times I deleted them was infuriating.
It's one of the most frustrating things ever. Anyone acting like navigating Android's files is anything similar to navigating any desktop computer's files needs some perspective. "You said this is difficult, but for me it's easy, therefore it's actually easy."
Firefox: oh you just saved 3 files to a folder, allow me to save the next one to a folder you haven't downloaded anything to in months.
Thank the allmaker for KDE recent files.
Unfortunately this also applies to Flatpak software in Linux. That's one area where distros really need to focus on improving usability.