Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

  • IdealShrew@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    you seem angry. what’s the difference between a folder and directory, theyre the same thing.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I’m not angry I’m older than Windows 95 which started that whole new-fangled “folder” thing for no reason whatsoever. And it’s slowly infecting Unix, too.

      …and at the same time they’re still using dir to list… a folder?

    • Dave.@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      A folder stores files and you look up the location of files within that folder with the help of a directory. It was a direct translation of physical concepts, such as the directory in the lobby of a building that tells you which floor and office a business is located.

      Just because Windows mushed those definitions together doesn’t mean that they’re the same.