I've discovered itsfoss.com and am greedily devouring information

I am taking it within my being and destroying it

I am removing it from circulation, from time and space

I have discovered what the File Hierarchy System is

wow that sounds a metric dickload more efficient than what Windows does, huh

But also.... less friendly to the concept of buying a tiny SSD for your OS and a big drive for everything else

which I did

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@sugar I later learned that most big things (mostly linux steam games) install in big localized packages, so I can just make steam libraries on a bigger slower drive just like I do now

@ShugoWah if you haven't learned about symbolic links (usually called symlinks) they're like the best thing linux has

@sugar Is this sorta like the concept of windows shortcut files?

@ShugoWah but better because it acts like the linked file/directory is actually in the place you put the shortcut

@sugar yes! cool okay I that's what I thought but I was having a hard time communicating it, haha

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