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    [–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.

    The only people that get upset over it are those whose entire personality are based on superficial bullshit like this because they don't have a personality, or just want to feel superior to someone else, or both.

    I've been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades, and using it period since it was hard to install and Slackware came in the mail on ~50 floppy disks. There is not enough "Get off my lawn" in the world for those people.

    I'll call the path container whatever I damned well please.

    [–] KellyThomas@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's like GUID vs. UUID, for most contexts they have the same meaning. Then if the difference matters either the audience already knows this or the speaker needs to be very clear that they are using one meaning over the other.