Something like that indeed.
Every active network connection, every process, every piece of hardware and others are in your file system.
Then there’s also the possibility for linking to a file and links take up no space, but can show up like files.
You can use a command like ‘stat’ to get more information about a file (or directory).

Something to realise when starting with Linux is that everything is a ‘file’. Sockets, processes, input, output etc. That’s very different from Windows and part of why scripting on Linux is so powerful. You can interact with anything.
So some directories are filled with things that aren’t necessarily files but look like it. Someone else posted a whole list, just realise that under those directories/paths shouldn’t be messed with unless you know what it’s for.
Generally when you’re getting used to Linux, /home/$user (aka ~) is where you put personal things. The rest is managed by OS and applications, don’t worry about it.
Edit: spelling

That would only be true of my remark would be irrelevant. Which it’s not. It points to the hypocrisy of the statement

Someone with the name Stalin is against book burnings? You crack me up.

Wow an internet tough guy, who’s the reddit archetype now. Lol.

I didn’t make this about me, there is no hatecrime here. That was what I responded to. The people that seem to be mostly aggravated aren’t the strangers in the strange land but the people that live in regimes that couldn’t care less about their own people. They use their doctrine to divide and subjugate their people, talking about fascism. And stop with the name-calling, that’s just pathetic. Speaking about human beings with feelings, look at those regimes once again.
We are talking about the mascot for trans people, what do you think happens to LGBTQ+ people inder those regimes in name of that book?
No we need to be more sensitive about that book and less about those people??!

So where is the hatecrime? You used a lot of words but none to actually talk about this. You apparently have strong feelings about the burnings. But that does not make them a hatecrime. I think it’s stupid to burn any book, but as an atheist I think both sides are acting foolish. By now they have burned more Swedish flags than there were book burnings. So perhaps that should be enough. The post and your comment read as a call to ban Ikea for being Swedish because there were book burnings in Sweden. By that logic we can ban just about anything.

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