Sloppy User

[InterGalacticSpook]

I’m sitting here in no mood to code, just reading and faffing about… So I took a look at my c:\ , eugh sies man, files and folders all over the place, tons of it.

With my home machines I don’t have this problem, everything neat and tidy in me /home folder except for my permanent collection of movies, photography and music that is all stored on separate drives, partitions or server.

This got me thinking why when working on a M$ Win machine, be it a PC or server I allow myself to be sloppy user… On my Linux machines I am disciplined. The same sloppy habits are even carried over to virtual M$ machines *sigh* I just can’t get around to using My Documents folder the way it is indented to be used.

Yea yea, Linux has the security group owner thing that keeps you on the narrow.

It even looks weird having a folder in / like /mystuff but on a windows machine c:\mystuff looks like it belongs there, like it has a right to exist along with the 334 MB (350,527,488 bytes) of loose files living there in c:\ land, wtf, defrag food!

Anyway, I will try harder next work laptop/PC I get or maybe when I reload it. I will hit it with a F15 and a Virtualbox for M$ dev stuff,
Eina.

Igs

 

[AstroTurf]

Know the feeling.

My ubuntu machine is perfectly neat, windows machines and vm's always end up in chaos.

Think it's also got something to do with how intuitive ubuntu is and how well laid out the home folders are.

 

[InterGalacticSpook]

painfull.
i have not used M$7 yet, looked at it and went oh ok. I believe its a tad more restrictive but does it allow you to be sloppy as per original post or is it like a jacked up 2008, mmmm

 

[AstroTurf]

You can still be sloppy in Windows7 (have it on my laptop)...

 

[Happy Camper]

Winslops?

I agree, my linux box is perfect, windows box all over the place, mostly stick it ALL on the desktop for some reason

 

[walter_l]

I hear you. The separation between user and system is quite useful... but that doesn't keep you from littering your home directory with any and all entropy the 'net throws at you.

 

[HavocXphere]

Yep. I've seen some truly epic things. Like one guy who installed *everything* to c:\ ...and then asked me to fix a dll issue with one of the games. (Still managed to fix it like a boss )

 

[oldhat]

Interesting point - never thought about this before. Just checked and yes, files are well sorted on my Linux PC but M$ pc is less well organised...

Many complain that Linux itself is a mess, too many distro's, etc, yet it seems to instill in it's users a more disciplined, hierarchical approach to file storage.

 

[InterGalacticSpook]

oldhat -> exactly
HavocXphere -> scarry one

i just did command
c:\tree /F >> txt.wtf

eish wenna, tjoe tjoe tjoe, eyawww

 

[volstruis]

With my home machines I don’t have this problem, everything neat and tidy in me /home folder except for my permanent collection of movies, photography and music that is all stored on separate drives, partitions or server.

You are allowed to say porn on this forum.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

oldhat -> exactly
HavocXphere -> scarry one

i just did command
c:\tree /F >> txt.wtf

eish wenna, tjoe tjoe tjoe, eyawww

post it up for giggles

use the code tag instead of the quote tag.

 

[ponder]

Same here, all my stuff is organised in Linux, Windows is a bit of a mess.

 

[AstroTurf]

LOL just decided to run auslogics disk defrag on my xp vm.

70% fragmented!