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It took me way too long to realize symlinks were a thing and why I couldn't understand my Linux directories (lemm.ee)

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I mean I feel stupid typing it now, but I've been using Windows since I was 5 years old, and Linux for about 30 days. It was not apparent to me that many of my folders were actually shortcuts to stuff in my user directory, and now that I know to look out for them the location of my applications make sooo much more sense.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think ntfs does some weird shit with translating names of files in different languages too, and maybe they are simlinks

Say desktop is translated to ntesctop in some language, the real file is still desktop but there is a link as ntesctop --> desktop so without changing the system it flips from one language to another. I am not sure, I haven't really spent much time on it, in recent years I did some installations at work but never got to play with it much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I don't think that does an actual rewite point. A lot of the localisation features were done using file explorer. You can even "localise" folders yourself using custom desktop.ini files. But those changes only showed in file explorer.

Now email! In exchange the standard folders such as inbox are localised, but don't have a fixed alias. So if doing administration you need to know the language of a mailbox to know the name of say the Calendar folder, so you can update permissions.