/bin confused me for a while because I thought it meant 'this stuff is trash, don't worry about it'.
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Linux file system is ext* tho.
If my /bin contains exe files, something has gone very wrong somewhere...
Also, all these infographics are a sad casualty of the /usr/bin merge.
The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.
I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.
Is it just me, or are the definitions for /sys and /proc mixed up?
Nah, it's just that /proc is incorrect - it contains information about running processes, as well as kernel data structures as visible by the process reading them.
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idk if unix or linux file system
huh... an exe in my /bin ?
sus...
Holy shit. I’ve been wondering about this for so long