Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoDevelopers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"discuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareSonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoI’m pretty sure the .file notation is a bug-turned-feature of a GNU coreutils program, Windows has no such thing and marks files as hidden using filesystem attributes. I couldn’t say whether I prefer it one way or the other, but the dot prefix does stick out like a sore thumb on systems that don’t hide them by default… though I think AnyOldName3’s explaination makes sense.
I’m pretty sure the .file notation is a bug-turned-feature of a GNU coreutils program, Windows has no such thing and marks files as hidden using filesystem attributes.
I couldn’t say whether I prefer it one way or the other, but the dot prefix does stick out like a sore thumb on systems that don’t hide them by default… though I think AnyOldName3’s explaination makes sense.