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Originally Posted by Portia
I'm guessing these are some of the really basic things that the developers here assume everyone knows, but that's giving me waaaay too much credit.
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That is true but not limited to "developers".
It is almost a part of the "human condition" among people who's experience is mostly with a single computer operating system.
Not so much an assumption but just things so familar (and perhaps apparently trivial) that they are not often mentioned.
Here it is common that a user's main experience is with a computer operating system other than the one used to run the Kindles.
And for the people who are familar with two or more computer operating systems, including the one used on the Kindles, it has just become automatic to take the differences into account.
So it is mostly the people who are just starting out to use their "second" computer system that get caught by these "trivial" differences.
A couple of examples -
Filenames:
*nix - file name extensions (dot three or four characters) are not significant to the operating system. Although they might be significant to a specific application program.
Others - file name extensions are significant to the operating system and the default view setting is to not display them to the user.
Common commands:
*nix - "cd" without any arguments returns you to your home directory.
Others - "cd" without any arguments reports where you are in the file tree.
That difference gets a lot of "new to *nix" people "lost" in the file tree.
There are quite a few of these "trivial problem causers" -
Maybe enough that perhaps a "cheat sheet" should be put up somewhere for the aid of the "new to *nix" folks.