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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Whenever I get to use windows and I face their byzantine directory structure, I wonder how people put up with that shit.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The average windows user is tech illiterate. They don’t know what a directory is. I work with a person who opens .docx files by opening Word and using its internal search function. She does not comprehend how or where files are stored.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I work with a person who opens .docx files by opening Word and using its internal search function

Unironically one of MS Word (and Google Docs)'s better features. Its easy to lose track of where you save a file when you've got a bunch of them open at once, and the ability to recall recently opened files and search by file name is a lifesaver.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

People don't know what files and folders are anymore.

Ask a non-tech person where they JUST downloaded something to... they can't tell you.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ask a non-tech person where they JUST downloaded something to… they can’t tell you.

Nobody really bothers to change the default though, so it only really matters if they later try to find the file without using their web browser. And if they do try to do that, "Downloads" is a pretty obvious place to look.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On ~~my Android phone~~ the Android phone I have, I find it hard to tell where the stuff I downloaded is.
Until I connect it to the computer and see the directory structure easily.

The Files app seems to be trying to do some kind of Abstraction over here.

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[–] liforra@endlesstalk.org 1 points 11 months ago

Luckily you can just use a different one tho

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you mean the byzantine directory structure for system files? The default of installing to "Program Files" doesn't seem too unusual, although adding "x86" bit seems unnecessarily complicated for a typical end user. Same with the rest of the standard directories that people use most often.

The directory structure for system files is bad, but that's true for Unix-derivatives too. Unix has /bin and /lib, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /var/opt, etc. Different versions of Unix have different ideas of what belongs where. Even different flavours of Linux have their own ideas.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Mostly for user files.

For system files it's not too bad. At least there's some logic to it.

[–] smackjack@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well going to .local/share/... Isn't very Intuitive either. Try asking someone who's new to find their Steam Directory.