• AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    i think i am old. i grew up using DOS, and really hated spaces in filenames and folders because they appreared truncated at the first space with a tilde and index of that file/folder representation.

    ex: C:\folder name is bad\ == C:\folder~1

    i hated that so much that when i got to windows 3.1 i refrained from using spaces (some command line was still necessary in w3.1)

    i have jept that habit through the years, so when i moved from windoes to linux, my natural instincts of snake_case_folder_names made it so i didnt have to change : D

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      28 days ago

      One of the fun things about modern Windows is that ~1 shit still appears every once in a rare while. Gotta love just stacking more and more shit on top of ancient systems in the name of backwards compatibility!

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      29 days ago

      Yea, Win 3.1 didn’t support long names - that came with Win95. Win 3.1 was a shell on DOS.

      But I understand - it all blends together after um… 40 years (ouch!).