At some point Linux desktops bought into that whole ‘less is more’ religion that plagues Windows, and started to hide crucial things like file paths in the name of esthetics and to not confront the poor simple users with the ugliness of the Unix file system tree. This is the result.
That’s just gnome being gnome
Nah, KDE also hides the path, you have to click to see it.
oh yeah but setting that as a default in KDE is way easier
my point is KDE at least gives you plenty of options right away to customize your DE, meanwhile in GNOME you need extensions for most things
I haven’t run into any file managers that hide the path with no option to show it. Which one(s) are you talking about?
I did not imply “no option to show it”. You can see it, it’s just not out in the open like it used to be.
That looks like Ubuntu, which I believe uses a modified version of Nautilus for the file manager. Hitting
CTRL-L(for “location”) should give you a path bar to type into.Seems the Debian chain (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) hide it by default but there is an option to enable it. It’s one of the first things I do because I use it a lot.
I think they’re all using Nemo (depending on desktop)? Not at home to check it currently (Debian 13 at home, Mint on bootable USB drives).
… Don’t trust me on Ubuntu, I haven’t used it since the telemetry debacle.
which file manager are you using? i have gnome’s files and it lets me specify the path by click on the current folder name and it looks like you’re using the same thing.
