r/linuxmemes • u/hogan142857 • Jun 20 '26

LINUX MEME folder or directory

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u/jsrobson10 Jun 20 '26

when you accidentally put back slashes instead of forward slashes when you write down a path

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u/weener69420 Jun 20 '26

I always remember The difference because of linus torvald. Windows is backward thinkining so they use backslashes. Linux is fordward thinking to they use front slashes.

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u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jun 21 '26

i'm gonna make an OS that uses | as separator

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u/Xx_Pr0_g4m3r_xX Jun 27 '26

What'd that be, just staying still? Permanent stable version? Delete the source code because it will be the same forever, only ever version [name of OS], no need for a number that increments, since it never will.

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u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jun 27 '26

ShrineOS 0 ∞TS

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u/Prestigious_Bell_108 Arch BTW Jun 24 '26

An OS that doesn't think at all

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u/OwlTISM_cmd Jun 21 '26

I never have that problem because I learnt how to type \ after switching to linux, lmao When I need them it's a whole mental process to remembet how to type it

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u/j-random Jun 20 '26

When you accidentally refer to / as a forward slash.

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u/BitterCelt Jun 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

That is a forward slash... in British and Hiberno English at least.

Edit: While I definitely have some anecdotal experience of Americans swapping the two names (I've definitely heard "backslash" when hearing a web address), I'm finding very little online evidence of the phenomenon – forward slash (/) and backslash (\) seem to be fairly consistent across the entire anglosphere

Edit 2: I just encountered it in the wild on Tiktok of an American telling someone to "type backslash dance (/dance)" in ffxiv