This meme is way more clever than it should be
Didn’t realize until I read your comment. Thanks.
I didn’t realise until I read that comment, your comment and the other comment about slash direction.
I realized immediately, read the comment, and then went back to look for a deeper meaning. It wasn’t there.
JFC, thank you. I didn’t realize until it was spelled out for me. I’m definitely not that kind of smart.
This is why I always sucked at games like Myst
Myst and Riven are two of my favorite games of all time. Give Myst another go if you’ve never finished it. After you complete the game, you unlock the “making of Myst” videos. The red and blue brothers in the videos are the two creators. They were independent developers in the 90s, so they made do with what they had. At one point they shove a rubber hose into a toilet to make the atmospheric bubbling sounds.
It’s a beautiful, clever, and groundbreaking game. Its puzzles, however, are taken in game design as an example of what not to do.
The clocktower combination puzzle, in particular, still makes me angry.
I realized immediately, read the comment, and then went back to look for a deeper meaning. It wasn’t there.
Took me a minute
Can you please explain? I’ve never used Mac and it’s been a long time since I’ve properly used windows.
File paths in Linux and Mac use / while Windows uses \
Take a look at the angle of the lightsabers.
I never would’ve gotten that!
Like I said, way more clever than it should be. Props to the creator for sure.
Technically, Windows understands both / and \. I personally always use / just because it’s easier to type that.
The lightsaber orientation is the same as the slash orientation
Ha, neat!
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.
Although you can use case insensitive filesystems with Linux, and case sensitive filesystems with macOS. I believe the case sensitivity is a function of the specific filesystem — but yeah, practically, the root for Linux is always case sensitive, and APFS
ain’tis only if you ask it to be ( https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/guide/disk-utility/dsku19ed921c/mac ).When case insensitivity is the default I always wonder how many apps unknowingly rely on that due to typos somewhere. I encountered this once while porting a Windows/macOS app to Linux that someone imported a module with the wrong case and nobody noticed
The source engine does not handle case sensitivity when loading assets from disk. On windows it’s not an issue but on Linux it will silently fail to load assets if the case doesn’t match. I lost so many hours trying to fix some weapon animation that had 0 seconds run time when porting a mod dedicated server to Linux.
VS Codium did that at some point, it probably still does but I haven’t checked
I once ran into a bug in an Arduino program where it wouldn’t compile. The author blamed my “broken environment”. Turned out, he had included “arduino.h” instead of the correct “Arduino.h”.
As is right and proper.
On MacOS you get a choice when you format the drive.
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Hard disagree. I don’t understand why anyone would want case insensitive.
Am I the only one who doesn’t go around mindlessly capitalizing letters? Do people find it too difficult to capitalize things?
Do you want case insensitive passwords too?
If I type X I mean X and only X. Uppercase letters are different letters, just like X and Y are different letters.
It’s less about me randomly capitalizing letters and more about me not remembering whether or not what I’m looking for had capitals or not.
Passwords ≠ Filesystems
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Uppercase letters are different letters
No, they’re different glyphs, they’d still be alphabetized the same way as X and x are the same letter
You can turn it off, at least for ext4: https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/
It’s a big difference whether a folder is named PetersHits or PeterShits. So what should I expect when opening a folder called petershits? Pictures of Peter on the potty or some great songs?
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Would it be more efficient to say Unix vs Windows?
You mean right vs. wrong?
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
Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.
Also the internet belongs on the left
This rings true in more ways than one.
I mean literally… example.com**/**index.html
Why fight when you can just do
cd /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Both works fine in Windows tho?
Used to not
Times change. You used to not be able to run Linux in Windows, but you can do that too.
Yeah, and I’ve tried that. It turns out it works even better if you throw away the Windows part.
Thanks be to God
Actually, from what I can tell in my brief 15-minute internet search, every version of Windows since NT has accepted both because DOS 2.0 supported both. The exception to this was Command Prompt. But, these days, it supports both. Not sure when they made that change in Command Prompt, but I think it’s been that way since at least Windows 7.
Sadly, I had the great displeasure of writing code for Windows (and DOS) well before then.
I don’t get it
Linux uses forward slash. Windows uses backslash. Because some dude 45 years ago wanted to make it look different from UNIX.
Was that bill gates just to make one of the first incompatibilities in a long long run?
DOS originally didn’t even support directories but was using / for command line arguments. They didn’t want to change the option character and break stuff so they went with \ as the directory separator.
DOS wasn’t originally created by Microsoft. They bought the OS from computer shop in Seattle.
Thanks for the info, didn’t know that (I did know they bought DOS)!
The lightsaber direction is like / \
A whole fight in characters:
/ \
X
| |
\ /- /
X
- /
You can actually use / as a path separator on Windows in functions like fopen(), because it supports some ancient version of POSIX standard.
The one thing about NT was that it didn’t have it’s own semantics, but it could emulate any system you wanted. It’s the unofficial successor of an OS that was based on creating VMs where you could run any other OS you want.
Then Microsoft decided to create their own system in it, and only really finished writing that one.
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
Specifying paths with - would be its own special brand of hell.
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at that point operating systems are also not real.
Wait, are we real?
What is this “real” concept anyway?
Adam Savage famously stated on Mythbusters “I reject your reality and substitute my own”
Sure, but is reality even real then? Is anything real?
Not that I meant to get all pop-philosophical on this beautiful Sunday morning, sorry about that.
Yes
Interpretation of reality is individual
Reality itself is relative
But if it didn’t exist we wouldn’t be chatting about it right now
That’s my reality anyway
What’s yours?
I, too, first heard this quote from Adam on Mythbusters as a child. But, I’m pretty sure I also heard it was said first by some philosopher.
I would later be informed that “some philosopher” was the 1984 film The Dungeon Master.
Only apparently that was not the first, and it was said in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. Well, someone on Reddit said that, and linked to this WikiQuote page but on that page it also says it’s from The Dungeon master.
So, I don’t know what to believe any more, and I still hope it was actually an obscure lost quote of Rene Magritte or something because in my head it would just make sense.
The big reveal comes when you realise the paths are in fact, relative.
Shouldn’t the blade be green? I thought Luke wore all black in ROTJ when he got hos green lightsaber.
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Linux is my car and pet at the same time. Does that make it a carpet?
I just begun hearing “I’m in the house like carpet” inside my head. Thanks Tobyfox on Bluesky!
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.
When you migrate the filesystem from a windows to Linux installation and hours later you can’t find anything
