Comment on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library

• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not angry I’m older than Windows 95 which started that whole new-fangled “folder” thing for no reason whatsoever. And it’s slowly infecting Unix, too.

  …and at the same time they’re still using dir to list… a folder?

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• dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A folder stores files and you look up the location of things with the help of a directory. Folders (or archives, or partitions, or storage), have directories to allow you to access the files within.

  Just because Windows mushed those definitions together doesn’t mean that they’re the same.

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