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How do so many people commenting on this seem to universally agree about being confused by Windows file structure? Like, look https://learn.microsoft.com/en-u

How do so many people commenting on this seem to universally agree about being confused by Windows file structure? Like, look https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-recognized-environment-variables https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/us... Those are the path variables Ez But logically? How hard is c:\users\username\whatever? Are you all so so so into Linux that you are just utterly flabbergasted by the simplicity of Windows? All operating systems hide hidden paths also. You can enable showing hidden paths. You should just know where programdata is where appdata is... The difference between local and roaming and locallow... I mean cmon nerds! Get with it! On Linux or Mac. Tell me. Where is Documents? Where is Pictures? Where is applications? Is Documents in ~/Home/Documents? Where is that if I'm not the current user? Why is Applications on Mac in my home folder different than the Applications in Macintosh HD/Applications? Why can I Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/? Windows is somehow the insane one? Windows makes sense! Instead of all agreeing that you're confused by something that you should be an expert in at this point if you are working in the computer space at all... Maybe you should take some time out to actually brush up on some skills that could be useful that you could help family members with. Because bitching around the sewing circle isn't going to inspire confidence and it's not going to help your case in any sort of way that you would think if you actually want to change or improve the situation of file system hierarchy. Remember, we are the nerds that know everything! Act like it! If Windows is so beneath you; then master it completely! Don't just ignore it because you think you're so much better than it. I see so many comments and threads on hacker News constantly where people are just like "I haven't touched windows in 15 years and then I had to touch it last week and oh my God this and that and this and that." And to me that is just the sign of someone who gave up.

geocrasher 4y ago
This. So. Much. This.
tuatoru 4y ago
> How hard is c:\users\username\whatever? Not hard at all. But Windows really, really goes out of its way to fight me using that. > You can enable showing hidden paths. You should just know where programdata is where appdata is... Yeah, because the onboarding tutorial for new accounts explains all that. Not. Some of us do know this stuff, and we can sort of understand why Microsoft made the decisions they did (they make sense, or at least less nonsense, in large corporate environments of Word users). But they are still a nasty product of the "reach for abstraction" impulse of programmers with not enough experience to know that they're working outside their zone of mastery.

geocrasher 4y ago

This. So. Much. This.

tuatoru 4y ago

> How hard is c:\users\username\whatever? Not hard at all. But Windows really, really goes out of its way to fight me using that. > You can enable showing hidden paths. You should just know where programdata is where appdata is... Yeah, because the onboarding tutorial for new accounts explains all that. Not. Some of us do know this stuff, and we can sort of understand why Microsoft made the decisions they did (they make sense, or at least less nonsense, in large corporate environments of Word users). But they are still a nasty product of the "reach for abstraction" impulse of programmers with not enough experience to know that they're working outside their zone of mastery.