Also the internet belongs on the left.
And really, Linux/macos could be reduced to "Unix" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg
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And BSD. It's really just Windows vs. literally everything. Or is there anything else that uses backslashes?
CP/M
Which in this context is named hilariously.
Typical windows behavior
Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.
I might be wrong, but I think you still can't use a ':' in a filename in macOS. If I recall correctly it will let you do it and show it in Finder, but actually replace it with a '-'.
I mean literally… example.com**/**index.html
I don't really watch Star Wars. I'm a more of a Trekkie gal.
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See, you can separate files both ways as long as it's logical
Specifying paths with - would be its own special brand of hell.
Both works fine in Windows tho?
Used to not
Times change. You used to not be able to run Linux in Windows, but you can do that too.
Yeah, and I've tried that. It turns out it works even better if you throw away the Windows part.
Thanks be to God
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If you know what a nordic keyboard layout looks like, you'd probably prefer backslash. Since I moved to Linux a year ago I've been struggling to find the easiest way to forward slash. Shift + 7? Or numpad / with my right pinky?
For me it's even worse. Forward slash is also Shift + 7 and backslash is AltGr + ß?? I hate that computing is only optimized for US american layouts. Going by my keyboard, the filepath separator should probably be an ö.
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Get a macro pad and configure one button to type a forward slash.
How do you type URLs using that keyboard layout?
Shift+7 feels wrong for some reason, so I currently tend to just send my pinky on a kamikaze mission towards the numpad hoping I hit /. Sometimes I hit numlock, sometimes I hit *.
Even if I made a compose key "shortcut" via ~/.XCompose it'd still be more work than what I'm doing already.
Macro pad could be a solution, I have considered it beforehand for other purposes tbh