honestly - while a Mac is certainly less painful to use than winshit, putting rubbish files recursively into each(!!) accessed folder, on all thumbdrives ever inserted, that’s something Jobs deserves to burn in hell for.
You’d want that, but a lot of programs do that, both in Windows and Linux.
e.g. The
.directory
files with the[
spec by ]freedesktop.org
Dolphin has the option to enable/disable the featureI am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?
the macos file browser, Finder, lets you set a background for a folder, move file icons around to arbitrary positions, other shenanigans. in order for this to work across systems on removable storage media and network mounts, they have this.
See also: Let’s roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for…reasons
Hmm… Smells like a windows user aswell… Look at that:
.desktopdesktop.iniEdit: fixed the filename
I’ve caught the whiff of some Linux too…
lost+found