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Even Windows is trying to hide the file system. It shouldn’t do it, it is a stupid idea by Microsoft, but let’s not blame kids for the idiotic decisions some guys in the big tech companies are doing.
Hiding file extensions is one of the worst decisions they made.
I don’t blame the kids for not knowing stuff, that’s usually a systemic error, but I will blame them for refusing to learn.
The stupid file save window that pops up in Office infuriates me and catches me off guard every time. In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft has decided you can only enable a setting to avoid the “Backstage” for file saves executed via keyboard shortcut. Which means if you realize you accidentally saved the file with a typo in the file name or saved to the wrong folder, you have to use the “save as” menu option, which pulls up their uncanny valley file save dialog, and you have to peruse the menu and look for the “Browse” button (that isn’t displayed prominently or with any weight beyond all the other UI garbage on the page) to bring up the file system window that should have appeared in the first place. The only reason Backstage exists is to push OneDrive and Teams, and even if you never want to save files directly to those disservices, you’re stuck with this bullshit that adds another UI hiccup to a routine for which you’ve developed a lifetime of muscle memory, and makes the user experience inconsistent across Microsoft software and third party software. You already have a OneDrive link in the sidebar of file explorer, assholes. Backstage never needed to exist.
I honestly think it’s intentional complication so they can start setting it to default to OneDrive thus driving up sales. Fucking horrible.
“The file system” is also an abstraction, as files are not distributed that way on a disk. E.g. a file system could work without folders, everything just tagged, like emails in gmail. This directory structure was developed in the 60s/70s for regular users, and modeled after the actual way they stored paper documents in folders that time.
I’m not against replacing the system with something more modern, like you can display your photos on a map if they have geodata, and sort by date, you don’t need folder structure for that.
E.g. I havent used the aformentioned desktop shortcuts for ages, I just search for programs whatever OS I use, even though I was growing up with win9x
For the other rant in the post, if you use a COW filesystem “duplication” works differently, e.g. if you modify a file you actually duplicate it than modify the new instance of the file.
OOP is not mad because new folks are stupid. OOP is mad because the way they learned to use the computer years ago is not the most common way anymore, their knowledge will become less and less relevant. They want to teach the usage of a legacy system, but at one point no one will care about therir archaic and irrelevant ways of interfacing a computer system.
