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Rage Against the File System Standard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

pwagland submitted a rant by Mosfet on file system standards. I think he's sort of over simplified the whole issue, and definitely wrongly assigned blame, but it definitely warrants discussion. Why does my /usr/bin need 1500 files in it? Is it the fault of lazy distribution package management? Or is it irrelevant?

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  1. Re:The Alternative? by -brazil- · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dunno about you, but I hardly ever launch programs through menus and never through desktop icons. If you work at the command line most of the time because of its greater flexibility, having to grab the mouse and wading through a menu or minimizing all the windows in front of a desktop icon just to start a program is actually much SLOWER than typing in the name.

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