Comment by sergiomattei
4 years ago
As a Gen Z folk studying alongside others… this is more of the typical “ha ha this generation is lost” BS.
Come on, man, you notice a couple students don’t want to meticulously organize their files and… go on to write this?
We know how to use folders. We use them. It’s not too hard to grasp. Sometimes things just aren’t worth the time organizing, especially with search getting so good.
If anything, this is a testament to how far we’ve come: search is so good, that the inconveniences of the past are fading away. That’s progress, no?
> especially with search getting so good
This is kind of the crux of it here. The reason this is a "Gen Z thing" is because you really couldn't get away with just using search until relatively recently.
I don't know of anyone my age (gen x/millennial) who even thinks to use Windows search because it was so tragically useless for so long.
I'm a balding millennial and I've been "organizing" my files this way for a long time.
I find I remember things based on time, so one long list is ideal and nested folders is just hiding things from myself. I organize physical spaces this way too, or more accurately I find spaces organized this way easiest to use but it tends to bother anyone I live with so I don't do it as much as I'd like.
I'm on the border between gen z / millennial. In our space (tech) this does seem like a completely ridiculous claim. But out in the real world I have witnessed this, and if this article were completely accurate it would not surprise me.
Is it accurate? I'm not sure, I have witnessed people in "gen z" do this sort of thing, but how widespread it is I can't say.
The post is not about folders, folders are but a small facet of a filesystem
Educate us about file systems. I’m a little unsure of whether or not I should trust out-of-tree ZFS.
What’s the lowdown?