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I mean I feel stupid typing it now, but I've been using Windows since I was 5 years old, and Linux for about 30 days. It was not apparent to me that many of my folders were actually shortcuts to stuff in my user directory, and now that I know to look out for them the location of my applications make sooo much more sense.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait until you learn about hard links

[–] lengau@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Uh I think you meant bind mounts lol

[–] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 18 hours ago

Stupid autocorrect!

Err... I mean uhh... No, I mean bird mounts! Don't you like mounting birds in your filesystem?

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 12 points 23 hours ago

He said BIRD mounts and he meant it. It is up to us to rise to the level where we too can use bird mounts.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

They might have but I certainly don't

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

came here for this