Am I the only one who gets confused between the forward slash / and the back slash \ ¿

fuck you windows for using \ for paths you are the reason for my suffering.

Also, whats the deal about
cd ..
&
cd..

@bitsnpieces I use cd .. in both Windows and Linux ^_^

Leave the windows if you hate it so much. Why didn't you curse Linux for using forward slash? Partial thinking and stereotypes. It's seriously not a big issue, both of them are different systems, get used to the fact and stop blaming them

I'm seriously getting sick of the constant "I tried Windows, it's not working" posts when I know damn well Linux can be a pain in the ass to get working, but nobody complains about that.

I hate using Windows file paths in IDEs because they think I am trying to escape a char and not actually make a file path.

Yes, they COULD have used / like every other unix-system, but not sure you can blame MS because MS-DOS was just a rename of 86-DOS

Edit: nevermind, 86-DOS did use / like a good boy

@theuser yeah, it was not MS fault alone, it's IBM who were already using the / for other purpose in their programs written for DOS and MS for comparability reasons had to leave it like that and go for \

@polaroidkidd it’s because it’s trendy for a lot of people.

To be fair, for programming paths with \ suck because of escaping

Those backslashes are a pain to type on AZERTY keyboards too

Sometimes I also get confused, but I get the feeling "something isn't right" when I see the wrong one so I correct it quickly

@dontbeevil 90+% of consumer market share*. Linux is pretty much found everywhere except the consumer market space where Microsoft has a firm grip, so the usage of "/" is way higher than "\"

Even URL's use "/" because its pretty much a de facto standard.

@dontbeevil Thing is, Unix (came late 60's) also had / and Linux as we know is based on Unix.

You can go to the wiki link below here and read about its usages, particularly the Microsoft section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...