From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Jimmy Johnson  wrote:   
   > On 03/25/2023 11:37 AM, Jim Diamond wrote:   
   >> On 2023-03-22 at 22:20 ADT, Jimmy Johnson  wrote:   
   >>> On 03/22/2023 01:47 PM, Jim Diamond wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> How curious...  I did a fresh install, and yet my mtab is a file.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes, in 14.2, 15.0 and Current mtab is a file and not a folder.  I have   
   >>> all 3 installed and I checked.   
   >   
   >> As Henrik (and maybe others) have pointed out, the "fresh install" code   
   >> should make it a link.   
   >   
   >> But when you say "not a folder" (and I assume you mean "not a directory"),   
   >> that isn't the issue.  It might be a symlink to /proc/mounts.   
   >   
   > So you've decided to become the teacher and not the student, how rude of   
   > you. I don't normally go around correction such trivial things but in   
   > your case I will make the exception. When I open my file manager and go   
   > to my /home/"folder" and right click I get the option to make a new   
   > "folder". No where is the word "directory" mentioned.   
      
   "Directory" is the actual underlying filesystem name for the structure,   
   and in the command line tools, "directory" is pretty much exclusively   
   used as the name.  That's why the "permissions" character that shows in   
   a long listing from ls (ls -l) is a "d" for directories, and why the   
   "mkdir" (MaKeDIRectory), "rmdir" (ReMoveDIRectory), cd (Change   
   Directory), and pwd (Print Working Directory) commands are named the   
   way they are.   
      
   The name "folder" is all but exclusively used by graphical user   
   interfaces as the name for what the OS, and the underlying tools, call   
   a directory.  This difference likely came about from Apple copying   
   Xerox and creating a "desktop metaphor" that included "files" stored in   
   "folders" to mimic the then paper world of "folders" holding sheets of   
   paper.  Microsoft then copying Apple to create windows also copied the   
   "folder" naming, and so we have what we have.   
      
   And one can often deduce someone's level of skill with the underlying,   
   non-graphical, command line by what term they normally use when   
   referring to "directories".  If they use "folder" then it is highly   
   likely they are primarially a GUI user with little to no command line   
   experience.  If they use "directory" then they likely have lots of   
   experience using the command line tools.  This of course is an   
   imperfect predictor.   
      
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