"Folders inside folders is a concept from 80s"

No it is not. If you have a problem with hierarchical organization you shouldn't even get a high school diploma. How do you even organize your life? You pantry?

@matrix What do you mean a .com isn't a website? I'm confused...
@matrix

:blobfoxdrakedislike: folders
:blobfoxthink: tags and categories
:blobfoxdealwithit: literally unsorted and rely on search indexing
@matrix I'm glad they aren't developers or it would be the most spaghetti code I would ever seen

@matrix yes, I agree with Linus and somehow everyone took it as a personal attack to Linux

@matrix If you don't understand file extensions on a basic level then you should just turn off the computer
@Guy-on-Poast @matrix I was reading a post by a teacher saying how children today cried because they didn't understand the concept of folders.

I think that's a good thing for Linus

@Guy-on-Poast
Well tbh file extensions are pretty bad. They are basically useless and Windows relies on that too much while at the same time hiding them by default.

@matrix @Guy-on-Poast file extensions are completely unnecessary
the mime type should be stored in the file's tags

@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast What's a tag? For binary formats you can magic number them, but any kinda of plain text and it's ugly and annoying at best

@applejack @matrix @Guy-on-Poast think music tags but for generic files and stored in the filesystem

@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast So metadata that's not actually part of the file. Requires external effort and tracking, and wouldn't even copy if you transferred it. Why not "tag" them but in the name, like, an extension?

@applejack @Guy-on-Poast @matrix real talk though I just wish all filesystems were feature-comparable to BeFS and we could do all the fancy shit it can do on linux

@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast Yes, and standard and normal and necessary already. That's obviously better than having to ship an extra XML file with everything

@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast This is what you're proposing is actually done half the time. Some mysterious XML file in some hidden opaque place

@matrix @Guy-on-Poast
> Windows relies on that too much

A interesting thing about this, is that you can see that a lot of windows only apps, like windows media player, photoshop and a lot of others, are picky about file extension, while if you use apps like MPV, VLC and others that are made for linux, they don't care about it
@matrix Im guessing its just cuz they want everything to be simple to understand. seems like alot of windows design features dont make alot of sense though

@matrix @Guy-on-Poast What did you expect, kikerosoft winblows is an orgy of obsolete code and new but bloated code

@matrix @Guy-on-Poast They really come off as a legacy DOS thing where you need to tell things apart in dir listings. It makes for arguably useful hints in a few contexts but even a windows-only power user should have had at least a couple of experiences to teach them that they don't magically change a webpage with a script embedded in them to a script file.
Looking forward to seeing the eventual video, and why his browser save-link-as prompt differed from mine (attached).
@matrix I'm tempted to create a dumb guide to download git files on their forums but I don't know if they would enjoy

@kumicota @matrix It would be really useful, actually, but the fact you have to do it proves the point

@joeligj12 @matrix It doesn't but it does, git tools are tools made by developers to developers because Linus and Luke aren't developers they don't understand how it works

@matrix this man hast to be after that hate engagement on purpose

@matrix File endings were a mistake. File startings are the solution: c.game, py.web, sh.run
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