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[โ€“] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Linux doesn't have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn't have been good for this meme.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

You can: ./texteditor, ./bin/texteditor, "texteditor binary", "(local) texteditor program".

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.elf is the closest thing we have.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate elves. If I see any elves in my computer I'm throwing it in the forge.

[โ€“] hoch 13 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

YES BROTHER KILL THE ELVES

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Eh, .elf is more for really low level ELF files, so a program would just be named program, a kernel would be named kernel.elf

[โ€“] QuazarOmega 4 points 1 year ago

Roll in the .Appimage boys

[โ€“] nomadjoanne 22 points 1 year ago

Oh they're just making a general point.

My gf did ask me why there wasn't an "exe" on my linux system though. But that's another story.