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.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You'd want that, but a lot of programs do that, both in Windows and Linux.

e.g. The .directory files with the [Desktop Entry] spec by freedesktop.org
Dolphin has the option to enable/disable the feature

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

today I learned - using Linux at home since 2005ish and I have never had an auto-file generated on any USB attached drives of mine...

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

I have manually made .directory files (using a bash script) to set icons on folders.

It feels good when programs let you know what they intend on doing.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?

[–] vvv@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

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.