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[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes they do. They know a Mac is different to a PC and they know a phone isn't the same as a desktop. They just don't know what that's called. They still have an intuitive understanding. They still understand that phones do annoying things like denying file system access. They understand that Microsoft products make it harder to save files for no reason. Most people understand the appeal of Linux if you explain it in familiar language. They've just been conditioned by society to fear change.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago

sorry man you are a perfect example of the comic.
cause most people also dont know what denying system file access even means.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Drag is using language you can understand easily, because drag is talking to you. To a normal person, drag would say "You know how on your phone, you can't just look at your files? Like you have a separate app for photos, and documents, and you can't just look at all your files from one app like you can on PC? Well, you can actually if you use an android. Here's the app that does it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.nbu.files&hl=en_AU"

Drag even casually named an operating system during that speech, and would have been understood perfectly by most people.

[-] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Kids today barely know what a file is. I have to regularly explain folders and file types. When I asked them where they saved a thing, they answer "On the computer" and look at me like I'm crazy for asking that.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

yes, because folders are not something thats really worthwhile in a filesystem. they're a vestige of an earlier time.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Folders, or directories, really, may not be worthwhile, but when you have more than fifteen files, they're quite convenient.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Userspace concept is my point dont need them in the file system itself

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

In that case you're left with applications implementing it, and hoping for something homogeneous. Which may or may not happen.
I wouldn't trust it.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

sounds like a you problem. if you think longer on it maybe you'll come up with the obvious layer to implement it at that isn't the kernel.

[-] hex@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Enlighten us instead of being a dick lol

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

See desktop portals, and desktop environments you dont need to use the kernel for the folder structure. And shared implantations for adding them in are fairly trivial.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think you're confusing user interfaces and API structures there.

Also file systems don't have to be in the kernel. User space file systems are a thing and work fine.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

??? Im not confusing those at all. You literally just repeated what i said.

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

folders are a convenient organization strategy

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed they are! Just don't need them in the filesystem itself

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They certainly know that it's bullshit to find half the stuff they saved because it's not in folders that make sense to them.

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