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[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 63 points 1 year ago

This is a feature, not a bug

Right? I rather not have a computer automatically autocorrect.

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and I think most shells will correct this case by pressing tab

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also, I constantly name files in the same directory the same thing except for case. In my ~/tmp directory I have unrelated foo.c (C source) and foo.C (C++ source).

[-] winky88@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Why not .cpp for C++? I don’t use C++, but I thought that was the standard.

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

.C came first. I don't usually use it though; I usually use .cc or .cxx, but if I'm making some tiny test source, I often use .C. I'm strongly opposed to the .cpp extension because calling C++ "CPP" leads to confusion with the preexisting (before C++) use of the initialism to refer to the C preprocessor. There's a reason why CPPFLAGS refers to preprocessor flags and CXXFLAGS refers to C++ flags.

[-] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But then the filename wouldn't be /^[[:alnum:]._-]*~*$/.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

All folders and files should be in lower case.

[-] bier@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Why did Linux systems go for capitals in the home folder? It's actually kind of annoying and takes extra key presses.

....A while later "XDG Base Directory Specification"

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Why does Linux do anything it does? Because a bunch of shortsighted nerds think it's a good idea. For example, try to install software on another disk.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

As someone said you solution is to symlink or setup LVM volume groups for different mount points. Essentially, it's all or nothing. You can't just put a single program on a different disk without then taking all those files and manually symlinking them to the right place. It's honestly one of the biggest Linux oversights.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Symlink your desired location on the target disk to the place the system thinks the software should go. (In my case, /usr/local/games is a symlink to a different drive.)

[-] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

XDG specifies the capital names, but to be nitpickingly technically precise, linux systems don't do this. It mostly is done by the distribution maintainers, and the XDG specs. A base system does not usually have a notion of anything beyond your $HOME.

Try adding a user: sudo adduser basicuser. If you ls -al ~basicuser you will see it's almost empty, just the .bashrc (or in my fedora, there's some .mozilla crap in /etc/skel that also gets bootstrapped).

[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like your style

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