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Am I the only one who gets confused between the forward slash / and the back slash \ ¿

fuck you windows for using \ for paths you are the reason for my suffering.

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  • 7
    Also, whats the deal about
    cd ..
    &
    cd..
  • 1
    @bitsnpieces I use cd .. in both Windows and Linux ^_^
  • 8
    Leave the windows if you hate it so much. Why didn't you curse Linux for using forward slash? Partial thinking and stereotypes. It's seriously not a big issue, both of them are different systems, get used to the fact and stop blaming them
  • 2
    I'm seriously getting sick of the constant "I tried Windows, it's not working" posts when I know damn well Linux can be a pain in the ass to get working, but nobody complains about that.
  • 7
    I hate using Windows file paths in IDEs because they think I am trying to escape a char and not actually make a file path.
  • 1
    Yes, they COULD have used / like every other unix-system, but not sure you can blame MS because MS-DOS was just a rename of 86-DOS

    Edit: nevermind, 86-DOS did use / like a good boy
  • 0
    @theuser yeah, it was not MS fault alone, it's IBM who were already using the / for other purpose in their programs written for DOS and MS for comparability reasons had to leave it like that and go for \
  • 0
    @polaroidkidd it’s because it’s trendy for a lot of people.
  • 3
    To be fair, for programming paths with \ suck because of escaping
  • 0
    Those backslashes are a pain to type on AZERTY keyboards too
  • 0
    Sometimes I also get confused, but I get the feeling "something isn't right" when I see the wrong one so I correct it quickly
  • 0
    So 90%+ of desktop market share use windows (so \) since 80s... But let's blame them because they're not using the / like 3% of desktop market share... Because is cool
  • 1
    @dontbeevil 90+% of consumer market share*. Linux is pretty much found everywhere except the consumer market space where Microsoft has a firm grip, so the usage of "/" is way higher than "\"

    Even URL's use "/" because its pretty much a de facto standard.
  • 0
    @theuser didn't know that the web and linux server were already a defacto standard before ms dos
  • 2
    @dontbeevil Thing is, Unix (came late 60's) also had / and Linux as we know is based on Unix.

    You can go to the wiki link below here and read about its usages, particularly the Microsoft section.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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