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It feels like the author didn't like tree based file structures? The provided software in the screencast remembers me of iTunes. Which I dismiss because it does

It feels like the author didn't like tree based file structures? The provided software in the screencast remembers me of iTunes. Which I dismiss because it doesn't provide a logical *tree like structure*. And it is not a filesystem replacement either, it is a database which adds a lot complexity and hides actually data. Furthermore this assumes someone is maintaining the metadata (remember the MP3-Taggers?) instead of the files. Metadata itself is useful but the creator of the file should add it not the user. Regarding file manipulation the proven answer are file permissions but I think CGROUPs are the flexibel, modern approach. Because I'm seeing "Windows Explorer" in background: Windows Explorer has degraded in recent years, it is even hard to open your "home directory" and the UI is confusing. Look at the one from NT 4.0 which was much more close the fulfill the task. And Apple: I think the regret nowadays the howl iTunes? But instead the pushing hard on apps which contain the data. Now you have to look always into a single app and uses it facilities to retrieve a file. Android failed here, too. But using iOS is hard.

ubermonkey 5y ago
>it is even hard to open your "home directory" Windows clearly doesn't want people to GET to their home directory, for some reason. That seems goofy. If people don't understand that $user contains the rest of those folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) they'll never be able to navigate on their own. That's bad. In a sane tool that features an address bar, clicking any given directory would show, in the address bar, the path to that location. WinExp only rarely does this. If you click on, say, Desktop, it shows you This PC > Desktop, implying a relationship that is incorrect. Getting to your home folder without typing requires you to start with C: and drill down, which is objectively insane. Even MORE bananas is that if you start at C: and drill down to Desktop, you DO get the correct path in the address bar. But if you then make a WinExp shortcut of that location, it goes back to the other behavior. WTF.
- ho_schi 5y ago
  > Windows clearly doesn't want people to GET to their home directory, for some reason. That seems goofy. If people don't understand that $user contains the rest of those folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) they'll never be able to navigate on their own. That's bad. Yes. Windows prevents users nowadays from understanding a straightforward thing, file-systems. I mean it was always a bit clumsy with A:, C: and [D-Z]: and the weird desktop metaphor harmed as well. Now I'm looking at the often criticized GNOME and the actually venerable Nautilus. They got it! All below / and in addition devices are directly usable (actually still somewhere below /run). The location bar reflects the current position. The desktop was removed because it never fit into a computer and the file system. Some actions of Google within Chrome are also questionable. "There is not address entry field" because we don't want you to understand how the web is structured. What? File-Systems are a simple thing, hierarchical. And guess what, the web is similar. Compared to "right click", "double click" and it's new friends "long press", "hard press" and "swipe from somewhere" and "guess what the voice assistant can interpret".

ubermonkey 5y ago

>it is even hard to open your "home directory" Windows clearly doesn't want people to GET to their home directory, for some reason. That seems goofy. If people don't understand that $user contains the rest of those folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) they'll never be able to navigate on their own. That's bad. In a sane tool that features an address bar, clicking any given directory would show, in the address bar, the path to that location. WinExp only rarely does this. If you click on, say, Desktop, it shows you This PC > Desktop, implying a relationship that is incorrect. Getting to your home folder without typing requires you to start with C: and drill down, which is objectively insane. Even MORE bananas is that if you start at C: and drill down to Desktop, you DO get the correct path in the address bar. But if you then make a WinExp shortcut of that location, it goes back to the other behavior. WTF.

ho_schi 5y ago
> Windows clearly doesn't want people to GET to their home directory, for some reason. That seems goofy. If people don't understand that $user contains the rest of those folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) they'll never be able to navigate on their own. That's bad. Yes. Windows prevents users nowadays from understanding a straightforward thing, file-systems. I mean it was always a bit clumsy with A:, C: and [D-Z]: and the weird desktop metaphor harmed as well. Now I'm looking at the often criticized GNOME and the actually venerable Nautilus. They got it! All below / and in addition devices are directly usable (actually still somewhere below /run). The location bar reflects the current position. The desktop was removed because it never fit into a computer and the file system. Some actions of Google within Chrome are also questionable. "There is not address entry field" because we don't want you to understand how the web is structured. What? File-Systems are a simple thing, hierarchical. And guess what, the web is similar. Compared to "right click", "double click" and it's new friends "long press", "hard press" and "swipe from somewhere" and "guess what the voice assistant can interpret".