When I first saw the Linux filesystem, I literally thought /bin was the trash directory even though I knew few things about Android filesystem at the time and obviously they are quite different from each other but they had few similar elements.

this is definitely a design decision I still don’t fully understand. I love how symbolic links are files, it makes it so easy to hack together an environment. But stuff like /proc I am still unsure of how we benefit from these being files.

Well, not quite. When I learned #Linux, I got taught the same but actually there a quite a few things that aren't represented as files. I heard #plan9 goes the extra mile of stretching the concept to all ends. I don't much detail there though because I am not a plan9 user.

@enigma Good info!