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@snappyie 3 года назад

“; Seriously underrated punctuation” *C compilers rejoice*

@madd5 3 года назад

C#, Java

@TeraPixel 3 года назад

I prefer to put random Greek question marks in place of semi-colons to frustrate my co-workers.

@dnoodspodu1159 3 года назад

;

@Internetzspacezshipz 3 года назад

@@TeraPixel definitely didn’t steal this from a meme 👀

@GrimOfDonuts 3 года назад

C#/.net is better

@borgdylan 3 года назад

; is a path separator for use in environment variables (: is the Linux equivalent)

@turun_ambartanen 3 года назад

And yet Linux somehow manages to allow a colon in a filename.

@666Tomato666 3 года назад

@@turun_ambartanen not only colon, the only two symbols that can't be used in a file name are "/" and a null byte, anything else is fair game; and the only two file names forbidden are "." (which is used to denote current directory) and ".." (which denotes parent dir)

@Juplay_FV 3 года назад

@@turun_ambartanen That is because Linux doesn't use a :\ to denote a drive name or a partition... these are just simply called sd(a[n],b[n],c[n],...) these are located within /dev/ and can be mounted via the mount command, which you then can point onto an already existing(and empty) folder on the main drive

@Juplay_FV 3 года назад

also, | , also called pipe, is used in the command line/ powershell to pipe the output of a command/program into another program (which is the same in linux)

@666Tomato666 3 года назад

@@Juplay_FV yeah, but just because | is used for output and input redirection doesn't mean you can't use it in file name: you can and it works just fine

@Fergobirck 3 года назад

There are also reserved filenames, which dates back to the DOS days. For example, you can't have a file named CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 and LPT1 (and 2, 3...), as those were all DOS device files and MS still keeps them reserved for backwards compatibility.

@LatvianVideo 3 года назад

Windows = 10/10 Backwards compatibility

@heracraft5526 3 года назад

I SEE you a man of culture , i got that from a tom scot vid

@SebastianMares 3 года назад

It's always fun when you work on code with people that use Linux for example and attempt to check out files that have valid names on their systems, but invalid / reserved names on Windows. I remember when I was working on a big project and it was the time before the "vendor" directory was commonly used, we had "aux" as directory to denote helpers or third-party stuff. Good luck checking that out from VCS under Windows.

@wilkdc 3 года назад

I was looking for this comment

@kstricl 3 года назад

I go back far enough in my career to have actually used most of those destination names in some context or another...

@Daniel-fi7jp 3 года назад

The ‘|’ is a command operator for “piping” which is for using the output of a command as the input for the next command. “A | B”

@jan-lukas 3 года назад

I think that no Linux user who used the terminal even once has not used "xyz | grep xyz"

@iancuvlad7368 3 года назад

Same holds for "", they are used for redirecting input and output

@caseyriley1014 Год назад

Came to the comments wondering what it was for, thank you... Can you give an example of how this is used?

@Daniel-fi7jp Год назад

@@caseyriley1014 You can pipe the output of a cat command to a grep command. For example a recipe file, do a grep to find all the instances of pie in the file. cat recipes.txt | grep "pie"

@dumpsterdawg 3 года назад

Windows be like "You can't give me the finger, Only I can give you the finger"

@iILuZioN 3 года назад

Oh Mr. Anderson

@morgan1168 3 года назад

The biggest character that Windows has a problem with ..... The one sitting behind the keyboard.

@Brendan_Keyport-WA7BMK 3 года назад

Sadly, that one is always allowed.

@wali031 3 года назад

That's why you use Linux instead

@combax_techx 3 года назад

ok morgan

@dnoodspodu1159 3 года назад

If this is an intelligent joke than I think your text is missing _is_

@arnavchauhan178 3 года назад

@@dnoodspodu1159 r/woooooosh

@giorgioarmignacco1346 3 года назад

3:15 seriously underestimated punctuation programmers : let us introduce ourselves

@mycosys 3 года назад

you forgot the ;

@adityaagarwal130 3 года назад

Programmers other than Python kids*

@kirathekillernote2173 3 года назад

Python enters the chat

@katech6020 3 года назад

@@adityaagarwal130 you can use ; in python if you want to put 2 commands on the same line

@gardian06_85 3 года назад

python just wanted to be cool C++/C# : every instruction needs to end in a ";"; python : don't try to constrain my lines with a symbol man, don't put multiple things on one line, and I can use ; for whatever I want

@TB1611 3 года назад

1:28 we need to see "cat ear linus.jpg"

@katech6020 3 года назад

it is from this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JI2vcvhhVb4.html

@Felipemelazzi 3 года назад

@@katech6020 I wasn't prepared for that... Thank you, anyway.

@AaronShenghao 3 года назад

@@katech6020 Linuspunk 2077

@CountDain7 3 года назад

Also emo linus

@h1ghe3a44 3 года назад

what about "linus with waifu.jpg"

@BreadsBurning 3 года назад

Give me the freedom to break everything, Microsoft

@Mathias-bz2kr 3 года назад

linux does that, windows is a compromize to have compatability to old programs and windows is proprietary, and rely on selling you windows, so they don't like modification of root files

@coolshift6783 3 года назад

Here come the linux cultists...

@belland_dog8235 3 года назад

@@Mathias-bz2kr Yes, we know you like linux. Move on please.

@mltw-the-orgnl 3 года назад

Linus is now a dog

@rackarol 3 года назад

@@Mathias-bz2kr imo if linux catches up to windows in everything and not require wine and terminal shit, then everybody will switch to it, so stop thinking average joes will listen to your shit until linux is as easy to use as windows

@_wouter52 3 года назад

Also, the colon is used for "alternative data streams" within Windows. Those are special files that binds extra metadata to files. Google it for a full explaination :)

@joachimprz 3 года назад

Flytech has an Video on that

@StevenVillman 3 года назад

I use en dashes in place of colons in computer filenames. (Also, I use *_em dashes_* in computer filenames wherever a dash - either an en dash or an em dash - is normally used in naming conventions outside of computer filenames.)

@Kortexual 3 года назад

I love the Linus Windows 10 background lmao. Can anyone from LTT share with us?

@jorgemartinez-martin7855 3 года назад

Please

@F3arRa1n 3 года назад

Please x2

@catalinspeed5500 3 года назад

It's on their twitter

@microtasker 3 года назад

pretty easy to replicate you noobs.

@gchristnacht 3 года назад

Here is one that someone on reddit made looks the same. imgur.com/a/tPX5ERW

@danieltruesdale1742 3 года назад

i miss when Techquickie told you explicitly what it was about in the title

@NathanielBenson 3 года назад

You won't believe these 5 quick secrets!

@okiguessineedahandle 3 года назад

For those interested in the symbols, here is a basic explanation of the 3 which were skipped '>' denotes "use this stream as the standard output for the process" e.g. the command line command 'echo Hello > text.txt' will write 'Hello' into a file called text.txt '

@williamdrt6009 3 года назад

: colons are used for Alternative Data Streams for example C:\some text.txt:alt_stream.mp3

@Coconut-09 3 года назад

They should be called spooky streams...

@Weaknespase 3 года назад

Conceptually, every valid path on labeled disk is also an alternative data stream, since it's not really interesting to obtain read/write access to the bare disk data all the time.

@joachimprz 3 года назад

Flytech did a very good video about that

@sboys3639 3 года назад

This is the actual reason why you cant use them in normal file names

@Aces_of_Chaos 3 года назад

Make an episode about ( what are the things that are running in windows background ? ) and do they make a difference?

@aldntn 3 года назад

Files I created in Linux: inevitably, windows does not like some of them.

@Avighna 3 года назад

HAHA YES WSL GO BRRR

@JohnyKnox 3 года назад

I find the inverse of that myself. Linux does not seem to like spaces very much.

@KingJellyfishII 3 года назад

I once created a file with a backslash in it in linux, tried to read it on windows and it really didn't like it

@MaxOakland 3 года назад

Mac OS too

@murphy7801 3 года назад

@@JohnyKnox well just need to use the escape character \ before the the whitespace in the name. It's pretty easy once you know that.

@Mikepet 3 года назад

The Title of the Video is a little missleading, i would call it "Why Windows Won´t Let You Do This..."

@CFWhitman 3 года назад

They were aiming at clickbaity, not informative.

@Mikepet 3 года назад

@@CFWhitman Yeah i know, thats the sad thing about RU-vid today. I also know channels today almost have to do it because its a ice cold battle for viewers and clickbait works the best. Still if i had a wish free, i would (at least on educational channels like LTT, Techquickie and so on, wish for Informative and not clickbaity Titles so you at least can find the video again if you want to rewatch it or see just from the title if it is interesting for you. Yeah that never will happen...

@FSR2007 3 года назад

it is now! What was it before?

@mini-_ 3 года назад

Windows won't let me name my folder "CON", which is a huge con of using Windows.

@deezychesse 3 года назад

Windows dosent like being called a dumbass in French

@yaroslavpanych2067 3 года назад

Do you bet your life on it? I could not remove folder named 'CON' using usual means once I created it, but I definitely managed to create it. If you are dumb, it is your personal problem, and once you shared it in public do not be surprised you and your family got eliminated as dumb branch of evolution!

@LittleWhole 3 года назад

badum *tss*

@LittleWhole 3 года назад

@@yaroslavpanych2067 Who hurt you?

@GaneshMKarhale 3 года назад

Yes, I tried doing it and it says invalid name.

@microtasker 3 года назад

Gonna need to see that 'Linus with Waifu.jpg' on the insta.

@arispacegirl 3 года назад

I'm really loving how much more polish has gone into Techquickie videos lately LTT editors, know that your work has not gone unnoticed!!

@paptasos00 3 года назад

I can see what you did back there with the Windows 10 wallpaper

@belland_dog8235 3 года назад

Dang I didn't even notice until I looked back at it

@perrypereyra6671 3 года назад

l.m.a.o.

@Brendan_Keyport-WA7BMK 3 года назад

you know, I missed that one, and I usually spot 'em.

@Radii_DC 3 года назад

That's one hell of a keen eye.

@Biker_Gremling 3 года назад

There's the MacOs version too

@gobbel2000 3 года назад

Laughs in Linux

@basshead. 3 года назад

Enjoy your mediocre gaming experience.

@mitchmarq428 3 года назад

@@basshead. enjoys your mediocre operating system

@gobbel2000 3 года назад

@@basshead. Thank you, I'm enjoying it very much indeed. As I use my computer for more than gaming, it is a compromise that I am more than willing to make, that there are few games I can't play.

@basshead. 3 года назад

@@gobbel2000 Linux is only better at coding and running servers. Windows is like a Swiss Army knife.

@gobbel2000 3 года назад

@@basshead. No, not really. Linux distributions are vastly superior to Windows in so many different ways, from the Kernel, filesystems, usability of graphical environments, privacy, stability and much more. Pretty much every use case would be improved by running on Linux rather than Windows. The only reason why in some cases you need Windows is application support and in special cases hardware support. Because neither of these apply to what I use my computer for or what I would want to use it for, the choice is pretty clear in my case and many others feel the same way, even if they have a different use case than those you mentioned.

@JoeJoeTater 3 года назад

tl;dr: Windows devs don't know how to escape strings.

@MatthewDeveloper 3 года назад

Underrated.

@Mr8lacklp 3 года назад

Or implement length prefixed strings.

@KingJellyfishII 3 года назад

linux/unix \ go brrrrr

@Rangsk 3 года назад

If you allowed colons in filenames, it could break relative path parsing. A program can ask to open "filename.ext" without the full path, and windows will look for it in the same path that the program is running in. Now imagine you named your file "C:". If that was allowed, Windows wouldn't know if you were asking to open the base drive directory, or a file in the current directory called "C:"

@Victor_Marius Год назад

A relative path should start with "./" to eliminate confusion. Then your relative file path would be "./C:"

@Victor_Marius Год назад

And if a program asks to open a specific file it should also mention where it expects for that file to be located in. A make sometimes python scripts that operates on files and usually print out the current directory since you can get the script to run in different locations based on how you run it.

@qT_p13 3 года назад

This video should be called "MS-DOS for people who never heard of it."

@WusigiDr1 3 года назад

Dr: Linus Windows logo can’t hurt. He doesn’t exist Linus Windows logo:

@devnol 3 года назад

“; Seriously underrated punctuation” That's a question mark in Greek also are developers a joke to you? You have dissatisfied Balmer, congratulations James.

@caliqm2199 3 года назад

Nice title "Windows won't let you do this,Microsoft hates it,find out how!"

@impendio 3 года назад

I only use windows to get fresh air...

@rev327th 3 года назад

fun fact: you can edit those files name in linux and brake linux The rescrition for those file names are only on ntfs and not in unix os systems

@KingJellyfishII 3 года назад

yep windows somehow doesn't understand the \ character

@Wreighn 3 года назад

Not true. It's not a ntfs limitation, it's a windows limitation. I can easily mount a ntfs partition on linux, and use those characters as much as I like. The problems start when I try to do something with those files inside of windows.

@rev327th 3 года назад

@@Wreighn i think its a limitation built in the windows kernel thats what i meant

@harbirsingh7266 3 года назад

0:49 You know you're talking business when your dumping ground is 780 TB.

@NetRolller3D 3 года назад

The colon isn't simply a drive letter marker - it's also used to identify alternate data streams. E.g. innocuous.txt:secret is how you would refer to the named stream "secret" of the file "innocuous.txt" (a way of hiding data in the file system).

@DanielWesleyKCK 3 года назад

Fun fact... these filename restrictions go all the way back to the CP/M days in the 1970s.

@StevenVillman 3 года назад

...which is *_precisely_* why they need to be done away with *_as soon as possible_* there! 😑😑😑

@crashalot63 3 года назад

Wait a second - in the Explorer window of "Linus??.jpg", there was a jpg named "cat ear Linus"? I think we need to see that photo...

@katech6020 3 года назад

it is from this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JI2vcvhhVb4.html

@crashalot63 3 года назад

@@katech6020 Thanks - that was hilarious!

@blahorgaslisk7763 3 года назад

Not related to cat ears or Linus, but I absolutely hate how windows is now trying to "help" me when I do a search. If I type in Linus??.png then I expect a list of files that start with the word Linus, has up to two numbers or letters after and ends with the file type .png. I certainly don't want to se "cat ear Linus.png" in the list generated. If I wanted to find that I'd search for *linus.png or possibly *linus*.png

@theproudlinuxer 3 года назад

Happy new year to the whole LTT and Techquickie team!

@jimvonmoon 3 года назад

TL;DW: some old DOS limitations on file names

@djktman 3 года назад

Finally after 20 years, I finally know. Seriously, thanks.

@dubfunk1886 3 года назад

It sucks that you have 20 years experience and knew nothing about using DOS or navigating it. As if you can use DOS, you know why these symbols are reserved.

@spongeyperson 3 года назад

You should do a Tech Quickie on the Limitations of Linux / EXT4 file names. There's a few, but not as many as Windows.

@anuragstutorials9484 3 года назад

Use something else, there are many alternatives file systems in linux

@Gramini 3 года назад

@Deon Denis I don't think that has to do with ext4, but rather the file manager.

@Gramini 3 года назад

Only limitation I'm aware of is that you cannot use a NULL-Byte in the file path.

@Finite-Tuning 3 года назад

Yeah this bugs me on occasion, but given the overall scheme of things and how well everything literally 'just works' on Win10, I can overlook this minor annoyance!

@verzocktes 3 года назад

Don't tell that the Linux crowd. They gonna tell you windows is shit and carry on crashing their entire system with their self compiled Nvidia drivers :3

@realcartoongirl 3 года назад

the music makes this feels like a meme

@rompdude 3 года назад

I work with network storage, so going to share this to my users when they ask wtf is going on.

@InvinsableNoob 3 года назад

Side note 📝 James blackmail folder is full of pictures of Linus in the LTT underwear and his tiny hands

@sam_mitschiro 3 года назад

I think a review of PowerToys for Windows would be fun content. I think a lot of users unaware of this tool, will benefit from it.

@benp439 3 года назад

+1 I can't use Windows without PowerToys.

@HedgehogY2K 3 года назад

I change the name of the Age of Mythology shortcut by adding: xres=1920 yres=1080 bpp=32. That technique is quite famous in a variety of forums to make that particular game boot at a native resolution and bit depth (1080p render, 32 bit RGBA).

@shivanshtariyal3473 3 года назад

1:28 now i really want to see linus with waifu.

@reikisano4542 3 года назад

It has to be the one with Yoko Littner pillow. Try searching for it.

@Avighna 3 года назад

Same

@charackthe 3 года назад

This is exactly why I am slowly moving to Linux.

@jpaugh64 3 года назад

Steam now lets you play Windows games on Linux! Check out their ProtonDB.

@charackthe 3 года назад

@@jpaugh64 Yes! It is great. Only a few drawbacks like The Forest's ModAPI and GTA V mods not working. I heard about overriding generic dlls and making it work that way for GTA V but not sure how to approach it yet. Currently I am using Linux Mint with Gnome Desktop Environment. Originally went for Ubuntu but they removed 32 bit libraries. I am hating every second of windows now, it is so slow and feels fat. This is my 3rd day on Linux. My original reason was this: I copied a file from my phone to my pc and windows couldn't copy it back to my pc because it had invalid characters. I installed Ubuntu and transferred everything smoothly. I have never installed a Linux distro before. I only tested them with Live CD thingy. I saw how smooth and great it was, fell in love with it right away. I am dual booting Windows and Linux now. Having said that I only gave about 32 GB to Linux which was a mistake but I can always fix that. I'm not ready to fully make the switch for couple of games (namely the forest and sea of thieves). Eventually, I'm hoping to boot windows just to see what changed since the last time I booted it.

@inkoalawetrust 3 года назад

Because a few characters can't be used in file and folder names ?

@Shadowdoctor117 3 года назад

I mean Linux has similar things in regards to file naming

@charackthe 3 года назад

@@inkoalawetrust exactly.

@ctwilli0950 3 года назад

Another weird thing. You can't create a folder called con on windows. There's a bunch of words you can't include in a folder name that they didn't mention here, because I'm guessing they just wanted to talk about characters.

@qingdom 3 года назад

we need to show love for the interrobang across all operating systems ... it is a forgotten symbol lost through time.

@shailesh0176 3 года назад

FBC fund and their algorithm is the best, there is no point in arguing with this

@slavko5666 3 года назад

I wish people stopped with bait click titles, I'm not even subscribed and I got this in my recommended because I watched one or two TQ videos.

@50PullUps 3 года назад

I can't begin to describe how much the obscure info on vids from TechQuickie/LTT/etc. has benefited me in job interviews and in my career. Keep up the great work!

@buddyroach 3 года назад

The part where you can't use certain characters in the naming of files, they could use a similar tactic in mysql and php to prevent injections

@MrMegaPussyPlayer 3 года назад

0:17 If I need a question mark, I usually use the spoken one, which in Germany goes something like this _"häe"_ .

@verzocktes 3 года назад

Hüe? Hä? Wät? Sprich deutsch du... ;P

@MrMegaPussyPlayer 3 года назад

@@verzocktes Manchmal benutz ich auch hae (wenn das Programm keine Umlaute erlaubt) so bin ich letztendlich von hä zu häe gewandert.

@Weaknespase 3 года назад

What is advantage of using question mark in the file name? I mean, seriously, is file name not sure about file contents?

@MrMegaPussyPlayer 3 года назад

@@Weaknespase Well, save games e.g. "Where is the collectable in this level?"* or alike. Or outside: "Is this dress blue and black or white and gold?.png" That being said. I don't use them all the time, only occasionally. *=I use stuff similar to that, to remember what I was doing the last time. Who knows when I will continue.

@Weaknespase 3 года назад

@@MrMegaPussyPlayer Okay, that does look like a valid use case. Unicode contains a lot of additions for standard question mark, starting with a full-width one (？), which is used by our Asian friends. It can be bound to a key combination with layout editor if used often.

@user-ei7ed6zy9k 3 года назад

Tom Scott made a quality view about this

@PhilBoswell 3 года назад

It gets even better when some applications barf on names that Windows is OK with. Excel, for example, uses the filename for internal links in certain circumstances, so filenames containing any of "[", "=", "]" can just fail to open.

@SMGGamingBenchmarks 3 года назад

Thanks . This was informative.

@King_DarkSide 3 года назад

I was a wee lad in windows 98 se when I learned this. Still dumb.

@mra2202 3 года назад

Ask a programmer the importance of a semi colon.

@666Tomato666 3 года назад

"what semi colon?" - a Python programmer

@mimidhof2179 3 года назад

Nice one very instructive and community evolving.

@matthewborgholthaus7952 3 года назад

This has been a very surprisingly interesting video better than my expectation

@basicnpcc 3 года назад

Asterisk??? You mean Kleene Star!

@rayaneh5230 3 года назад

Don't worry James We, programmers, make good use of your ; (except Python programmers, they got lost along the way)

@user-dk1nr3tv8b 3 года назад

most modern programming languages dont use semicolons, not only python smh

@rayaneh5230 3 года назад

@@user-dk1nr3tv8b Most popular use it tho and for those which don't use it, their compiler is probably written in C so ~ But if you use the argument of Assembly language, then I declare forfeit ! ^^

@user-dk1nr3tv8b 3 года назад

@@rayaneh5230 uh, no, ur wrong, most popular languages dont use semicolons, r u sure u know any other langauge than c/++ or java?

@verzocktes 3 года назад

@@user-dk1nr3tv8b a list I found about the most used programming languages. Python (no semicolons) JS (you don't need to write them BUT you can and JS will fill them automatically if you don't) Java (has semicolons) C# (has semicolons) C (has semicolons) C++ (has semicolons) PhP (has semicolons) Are you sure you know what languages are used today besides python?!

@verzocktes 3 года назад

@@rayaneh5230 u right tho and he/she has no plan what he/she's talking bout ^^ or we 3 have vastly different ideas what an popular programming language means

@thebasketballhistorian3291 2 года назад

I grew up in an age where file names could only be 8 characters long with no spaces. BE HAPPY you can name anything almost any way you want now. 😂

@BoomChockolaca 3 года назад

0:50 - is this your storage, guys? ( *3.279Pb* in total) Dumping Ground - 780Tb Old Vault - 914Tb Useful Software - 780Tb New Vault - 780Tb Shared Cache X - 1Tb Users - 24Tb *Total: 3.279Pb!!! * 3.3 Petabyte, Carl!! Guys, how many storages you have up there? How many 14Tb HDDs you've received from WD?

@dexah4842 3 года назад

Windows won't let you: Have freedom Customize anything Even go NEAR the kernel Be happy ----- MacOS won't let you: Everything ------ Linux won't let you:

@miff227 3 года назад

Linux won't let you: Use a lower case letter when the file has a capital letter. See your hardware. Let you ask questions about Linux without getting abuse from Linux users. Complete your Linux tasks in the university linux lab because 4 professors can't get it to do what it happily did last week while 20 students sit around. Just my personal experience, I've tried a few times to use Linux when I had a use-case but all it is is pain so far.

@TheMasonkerr 3 года назад

i dont want to rewrite my kernal every time i wanna set up my computer, and imagine living without windows domain services and active directory

@dexah4842 3 года назад

@@miff227 For me, i can do all these things. I mainly use linux, so that stuff is easy for me. Idk, it's personal preference though

@dexah4842 3 года назад

@@TheMasonkerr I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

@miff227 3 года назад

@@dexah4842 and I get that it may be the distros I was trying to use etc (MythTV, Centos)

@TjPhysicist 3 года назад

I like how windows has all these restrictions and clever reasoning like "oh yea we need to have this restriction because , there's no way around it", meanwhile all Unix based and Unix like OS' are perfectly fine with ALL of this. no problems at all.

@user-xr3rb6pn9m 3 года назад

Yeah; basically, the only character which is really forbidden in a Linux filename is / .

@WyvernDotRed 3 года назад

. and .. are also reserved, for similar reasons.

@666Tomato666 3 года назад

@@user-xr3rb6pn9m technically, also a null character is disallowed, but that's because the APIs use C strings and those use null characters for string termination

@jpaugh64 3 года назад

@@666Tomato666 That's right! Linux forbids characters that *nobody* has even heard of, rather than the ones you can see.:-)

@cunnyman 3 года назад

Ofc, Windows was made for a larger audience. There's more retards than people that willingly install Linux. If you use Linux, you know you are good enough to or willing to troubleshoot if necessary. Most Windows and macOS users just want to use a working OS without messing around... As such, there's more less informed users.

@pupyasko1233 3 года назад

WHAT‽‽‽ Certainly the most underrated punctuation has to be the interrobang!

@sujayr6983 3 года назад

informational and quick. nice video!!

@fuseteam 3 года назад

linux doee not have these limitations xD

@WyvernDotRed 3 года назад

Ext4 has very few, . and .. are reserved, and some 'files' aren't actually files, like the ones in the /dev folder.

@fuseteam 3 года назад

@@WyvernDotRed pretty sure you can use dots and comma's in filenames

@niduroki 3 года назад

@@fuseteam you can't name a file . or .., as . is always used to refer to the current folder, and .. to refer to the parent folder. Should apply to most unix filesystems actually.

@666Tomato666 3 года назад

@@niduroki it's the same on Windows, and yeah, all Unix like

@fuseteam 3 года назад

@@niduroki yes but you can call a file "test, 1, 2, 3........." :p . and .. already exists in every folder so that error will make a tiny bit more sense

@AnonymousMC 3 года назад

Hey everyone! I hope you stay safe and have a nice day! God bless you! :D

@fastmot1on 3 года назад

Back in the 1990s we used to scan random ip ranges for open windows ftp servers, and we used crazy invisible ascii characters to create folders and put pirated games and movies inside. Noone could delete those, even the admin.

@gradybeachum1804 3 года назад

Gosh, things I haven't thought about since Dos ver. 2.2! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

@gwgux 3 года назад

TL:DR - Windows has many things held over from previous versions and even DOS and it's not likely to change anytime soon.

@joannaatkins822 3 года назад

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@prashasthnair9198 3 года назад

Best wallpaper behind you 😂😂

@MagusApex 3 года назад

This is more helpful than I ever thought

@moustaphadiallo600 3 года назад

How about windows lets me permanently disable the useless "antivirus" that has done zero for me but stop me from opening programs?

@verzocktes 3 года назад

I am pretty sure you can deactivate it just the "requires admin privileges" prompt will show up everytime since this is how windows works

@verzocktes 3 года назад

But that is not strictly part of the windows anti-virus but more of the overall "security" concept

@moustaphadiallo600 3 года назад

@@verzocktes I am tired of turning off my useless "antivirus" every time I want to open 80% of my programs. You can get an error trying to open a program and waste 20 minutes figuring out how to open it then release windows "defender" was the problem the sole issue.

@verzocktes 3 года назад

@@moustaphadiallo600 TBF since I can not asses your situation I can not relate. I use Windows 10 since day one (actually day 8 or so who cares) and never had such a problem. the worst things were that I needed to tell SmartScreen to let me start my Programm anyways even if it doesnÄt know it, but that was a matter of 2 Mouse clicks. And sometimes at work WindowsDefender WILL block or slow down my connection to our SQL server, but that's also done with a quick fix.

@wibs0n68 3 года назад

@@moustaphadiallo600 iirc you can disable it forever with editing the security policy, that's how I did it.

@RxZ95sssPG 3 года назад

Gosh, those titles... please stop this for a tl;dr format like this.

@ash_ish 3 года назад

Very informative thank. I had literally no idea about any of these for more than a decade.

@riverramirez8881 5 месяцев назад

In a nutshell, the following are the reasons why these characters are forbidden. *? Are wildcard characters. Are command line characters to redirect a command. " Denotes a full file path if spaces are present. : Is used for drive letters. \ Separates directories. / Also does work for separating directories, but is more used for web related tasks. | I honestly don't know with this one. PS, I'm honestly surprised % isn't forbidden, because it does serve a function for environment variables.

@andrew9644 3 года назад

whats up techquickie

@lizardflap251 3 года назад

NO! SHUT THE FUCK UP! IM GAY! LOOOOKK AT MEEEEE

@oreowithurea5018 3 года назад

Alternate title: *BILL GATES wouldn't appreciate like you to do these things...*

@phalanx3803 3 года назад

“; Seriously underrated punctuation” LOL that describes my whole life

@drzeldaglitch 3 года назад

i love the desktop wallpaper in the background

@Catnugget76 3 года назад

TLDR: Windows File Explorer sucks. You need to use commandline to fix brokenly named files, or connect the drive to other OS like Mac or Linux

@ramhithesh4700 3 года назад

The day Linux can run games windows will be dead

@robertkiestov3734 3 года назад

Except it can run games really well

@ErtugrulOzdemir-mf1gl 3 года назад

I can't wait for kernel 5.11

@user-xr3rb6pn9m 3 года назад

@@351 still, a lot of games that people really care about, with some kind of anti-cheat software, won't run. Also, for quite a few games, it takes some googling to make them run properly with Proton. I'm a Linux gamer myself but I realize Linux gaming won't work for everyone.

@user-xr3rb6pn9m 3 года назад

@@351 let's hope it will be the case. But, honesty, I still believe that Linux desktop will remail a niche thing forever.

@mason4127 3 года назад

The $ is used to hide file shares in windows, and % is used to signify a system variable. If you type %appdata% you will be taken to the current user’s roaming appdata folder. In enterprise environments these variables are really helpful, like if I want to set a bunch of users up with personal network drives all I need to do is select all, select the drive letter, then assign the path \\fileserver\usersdata\%username% If you really want to get fancy you can create custom system variables.

@Dryblack1 3 года назад

I love not being able to tell a single thing about a video by reading its title or looking at its thumbnail.

@Sketter 3 года назад

I hate that they started using background music. Takes away their uniqueness.

@ReclusiveEagle 3 года назад

List of things windows 10 won't let you do: 1: Stop updates permanently. If you are a small business relying on older software you are f'ked if the update breaks it. 2: Change Start menu icons for applications and games. (PinMore) 3: Let you set number of core or core affinity permanently for any exe 4: Let you have an animated desktop (Wallpaper Engine) 5: Let you have custom widgets (Rainmeter) 6: Kill frozen processes with Alt F4. If its frozen and refuses to crash you have to shut down your pc 7: Let you uninstall Edge or IE. 8: Let you have a translucent or pure black taskbar (TranslucentTB)

@somnia3423 3 года назад

tabs for the file explorer like linux :(

@wibs0n68 3 года назад

1: you can, just kinda difficult 6: Task manager is a thing 7: you can 8: if you activated windows, you should be able (but not translucent)

@dinothegonzo 3 года назад

You know James is a writer when he said the semicolon is a seriously underrated punctuation; I felt that too.

@kaiserped 3 года назад

If you're DOS veteran, this is "Understandable. Have a nice day" thing.

@JoaoBio 3 года назад

I really enjoy LTT videos and the new channels. But this kind of clickbait title doesn't suit you guys. Please avoid it. Cheers

@epicnicity916 3 года назад

Summing Up: Windows is bad

@jvigel2101 3 года назад

how is that relevant to this video

@theextremeprogamer8186 3 года назад

Short answer is, the characters that you can't use for naming files is what is used to write the code that the operating system uses. If there were quotations, colons, and other things, it messes things up.

@hershmysson 3 года назад

oh and another thing, Mac doesn't have those restrictions, and when you move a file from a mac to windows, that has those marks... the file works fine.

@MaxOakland 3 года назад

I think it usually changes the forbidden character to an underscore to make it work on Windows

@gamershruti5351 3 года назад

To The Early Squad Reading this: Sending Virtual Hugs to everyone who need it always stay safe read my name💓

@LT_ 3 года назад

Thanks and you too

@DaLoler1 3 года назад

Thanks but why read your name ?

@RedFenceAnime 3 года назад

They should've never allowed spaces in file names.

@StevenVillman 3 года назад

*_DUDE_* - spaces are *_*ESSENTIAL*_* in computer filenames much of the time!!!

@RedFenceAnime 3 года назад

@@StevenVillman Spaces really aren't essential. Widows filenames don't support capitalization either. All names are ALLCAPS to the system. You just don't see it.

@markusTegelane 3 года назад

: is also used for alternate file streams in NTFS file system, which is why Windoed won't let you use it in a file name. Alternate file streams basically contain metadata about the file.

@alejandromoran4590 3 года назад

You can use a point in a filename because file extensions aren't really needed for the system, o a program, to read the file (windows and other programs need the extension to find the file, but that's because they were programmed to find files by filename and extension, because it allows to use the same filename for several types of files, and is also easier for humans to know what kind of file it is).