Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoDevelopers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"discuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1339arrow-down1imageDevelopers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"discuss.tchncs.deMagnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewaigl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·4 hours agoFiles and directories starting with a dot are hiden by default. You are aksing for this stuff if you manually unhide them.
minus-squareMagnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoScreenshot is from Windows where dotfiles aren’t hidden by default. And all the lazy developers that created those directories, didn’t bother to set the hidden attribute (See appdata is greyed, because it has the hidden attribute set)
minus-squaresik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·55 minutes agoTo be fair, those Windows directories might have a space in them and break things anyway.
minus-squareTonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 hours ago There are a million reasons to access those folders. There are 0 reasons to leave them hidden.
Files and directories starting with a dot are hiden by default. You are aksing for this stuff if you manually unhide them.
Screenshot is from Windows where dotfiles aren’t hidden by default. And all the lazy developers that created those directories, didn’t bother to set the hidden attribute (See appdata is greyed, because it has the hidden attribute set)
To be fair, those Windows directories might have a space in them and break things anyway.
There are a million reasons to access those folders. There are 0 reasons to leave them hidden.