• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    5·
    1 year ago

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

    A picture of a folder icon from Ubuntu

    Say my name.

    • lp0101@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I feel like the only people who actually care are the type who wrap their entire personality around which OS they use

        • CoderKat@lemm.ee
          0·
          1 year ago

          “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 and drops 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 you were correct, you wont 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.

  • ErrorCode@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

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