At this point DeSinc should just swallow his pride and virtualise a Windows KVM guest on a Linux host so he can say he's technically using Linux without having to learn Linux...
Your mistake is using a ftp client to extract a file lmao. Just ssh into the server's terminal and use the 'unrar' application. Its just literally "unrar path/to/rarfile exact/path/to/extract/"
we're arguing about different things, I know what I did was my fault and I know exactly what went wrong (I ran the command from the context of the folder above without realising that's what was going to happen) but the point I was making was specifically about user friendliness. what are your considerations for new users? this type of thing could be made simpler and that's all I've ever argued
CORNMASTER!! Help him!!! Your friend is in GREAT danger, it is your duty as his friend, nay, as his BROTHER-IN-ARMS to assist the BSINC during this obstacle, just as he would help you if you were in a situation of need and despair!
tbh i hate unzipping files anywhere, bc i cant be assed to double check the contents of the zip file so its a crapshot whether i end up with a single folder inside a folder (bc the zip file has a top level folder), dumping everything where i dont want it, or actually doing it correctly. archive files suck
my only issue is you have to actually type the correct spell incantation.. sorry I mean -param modifier.. to specify to the command that you want to maintain the file structure every time you want to unzip something. and I don't unzip things often enough to commit it to memory, so the result is I'm effectively just googling this code every single time I extract something. what use is a command you have to google how to type it properly every single time you run it, otherwise it just dumps every file in the whole thing into a top level folder. it's like it just grabs a folder and dumps all the papers out onto the ground going everywhere all out of order.
I see million Linux users just running and saying uhh you actually have to write this in prompt to extract in specific folder you want Lmfao free WinRAR users can extract anywhere they want with 1 click on windows
@@TheBoringEdward winrar is superior Say one thing 7zip does better Not having pop ups I have 14 years of muscle memory closing them popups they are not annoying at all
@@majorseamen7446 nah 7zip is better, it even performs better, results in better compression ratios, has more options etc. easier and faster to use, free, slightly better ui for opening zip files than winrar, etc. I was a winrarrer before but I'm not glued to any one product no matter how long I use it and just using 7zip I can tell it's slightly better.
I only remember KDE from trying it 20 years ago and seeing the cheap looking K cogwheel/gear logo in the gui with the sad selection of games that came with it (this was when I was a kid obviously)
This is an issue with Filezilla though, if you were running Filezilla with a Windows server, you'd still have the same issue. I have no idea why you're blaming the entire OS for this
I'm not sure how unzipping a file in the wrong directory Has anything to do with the quality of Linux (which really is just the kernel). If you use the GUI it extracts where you think it will, when you use the command line both Linux and Windows usually extract it to the current directory, idk The issue
I hate Windows, but Linux will never beat Windows, and you know why? As Asmon says "people will always choose the path with less resistance" and that's true and Windows will always be the easiest path to take...
People were paid a lot of money to focus on making every user interaction easy and free of unintuitive messes. Linux is an open source project that as long as you know how to use it is great (arguably the best in most cases) for servers and highly performant implementations. They're both good at different things. The problems I most often refer to with linux is with the command line, which is understandably always going to be a bit more vexing. I don't agree that it should be so archaic though. I think we are smart enough to make even a command line interface easy to use for any beginner, but we're just not trying hard enough.
I'm a linux user but I know it won't beat Windows any time soon. I like using the command line, if you know what you are doing it is often the fastest way of getting things done, but sometimes it is the only way and that's the problem.
@@DeSinc there's some progress on that front actually, there are shells like fish, developers tried their hardest with user interactivity, suggestions, autocomplete, colors and stuff
it was a linux command that did this - filezilla doesn't even extract zip files, not sure why people are thinking filezilla is what caused this, it's just being used to view the files
