How dare you question the orphan-crushing economy!

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The Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has “Create Folder…” under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.

Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both “directory” and “folders”.

man ls uses “directory” only tho, and of course mkdir.