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    Dual booters be like (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Directory is the older term, but when they started making computers user friendly they needed a friendlier word for it. Folders make sense because people understand putting files in folders in real life.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Aha, to me it's an apt metaphors as files go into folders and it fits with the whole desktop analogy.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Exactly, except like all computer metaphors they break down when you get into the details. I can't put a document in more than one folder and update them at the same time IRL like I can do with a symlink.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    You bring up a pretty good point. Whenever I have a personal document that could go into multiple categories (eg a travel insurance certificate can go into travel, insurance, or finance folder) I place it in all 3 at once with hard links. What's more is that if I intuitively first search for a document in place A but it's actually in place B I simply place a link in A for the next time.

    Before I learned a bit about file systems I didn't even conceive of such a thing being possible; precisely because the folder metaphor had imprinted upon me the physical world constraint that things can only be in a single place at once.