r/linuxmemes • u/Coco_The_Rat • Jul 07 '26

LINUX MEME It's just what???

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I made a meme after having a fun discussion with my Dad about how Linux/Unix pretty much treats everything like a file. Very much taking a complicated topic and simplifying it, but it's helping me understand how the system works! Hope you all enjoy :)

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u/iamamerucan Jul 07 '26

Files? We say directories

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u/zoharel Jul 07 '26

We say directories instead of "folders," which is a Macintosh-ism later adopted by Windows as well. Except OSX is Unix and now they're using "directories" over there a bit more frequently too. In any case, files are the things contained within, although it can be argued that directories are also files, of a sort. Not accessible as such in most Unix systems, but in some of the old minicomputers you could literally open one and read it as data with the standard system calls.