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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by rodgerd on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:47PM (#32432121)
The thing that irritates me is that people then venerate these accidents. Yes, some accidents are happy; many are at best neutral or least-worst or what have you. And then *ix culture dies in a ditch that we must keep all of them, forever, as though they were the result of a carefully thought out process that produced the best of all possible worlds.
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by tinus_hn on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:59AM (#32436062)
Humans are the result of billions of happy accidents. It’s not a bad thing to use them as successful experiments.
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by wruza on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:34PM (#32433530)
What would you change and how, ignoring the cost of re-standardization?
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by pdimitar on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:12AM (#32435174)
UNIX pipes. No more plain text, it has to be typed stream of values. And the terminal will by default print details about it e.g "list of records with this or that format".
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by colejohnson66 on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:26PM (#32444698)
That’s PowerShell. Everything is an object, not text. But a lot of people hate it because it’s different.
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by pdimitar on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:10PM (#32445485)
Hm, have to check it out again. Last time around installing in Linux wasn't straightforward, plus I hate Snap. But will revisit.
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by throwaway290 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:35PM (#32433883)
Plan 9.
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by ikiris on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:58PM (#32434299)
plan 9 got the same treatment your username did. Problem solved XD
Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by throwaway290 on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:02AM (#32435711)
Rephrase. As in, no thought went into the name?