Trolls, who like to corrupt people’s data, exist. A GUI procedure is almost always safer.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When you accidentally say "folder" instead of "directory" in a Linux group.English
1·5 months agoThe Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has “Create Folder…” under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.
Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both “directory” and “folders”.
man lsuses “directory” only tho, and of coursemkdir.
I don’t use Plasma, but in Mint Xfce, you click:
which includes all this and USB and Repos sections.
If your mouse/touchpad is broken, then doing it with a keyboard only may be a bit tricky for a newbie, because you have the Shift+Tab to get to the Copy button:
While CLI is superior in many ways, sometimes even for newbies, I’ve found that for them GUIs are usually much easier and safer. I recently struggled to get someone to type spaces in the correct places in a terminal, over the phone.