The Windows Poweruser's Guide to the Linux Filesystem
A guide by a Linux noob, for Linux noobs
by upcz, August 2024
As Windows native, Microsoft had instilled in me a very specific idea of
what a 'file' is, one that went unnoticed even after years of manipulating
Windows' tools in ever-more-convoluted way. and so when I had my first
real encounter with the Linux operating systems, one of the first things
that stumped me was what it considered to be 'files'. A
Even after years of (admittedly sporadic) use, something about it still
felt wrong.
On that note...
I may be stupid or something, but it's only recently that I realized
that https:// is just a protocol prefix –
https:, i.e. read everything after the colon as the address
of an HTTP(S) service provider.
The prefix was never https://, it was
https: all along! The two slashesh only marked the
beginning of a remote host.