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• bier@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why did Linux systems go for capitals in the home folder? It’s actually kind of annoying and takes extra key presses.

  …A while later “XDG Base Directory Specification”

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  • MJBrune@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why does Linux do anything it does? Because a bunch of shortsighted nerds think it’s a good idea. For example, try to install software on another disk.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Any help with that?

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      • MJBrune@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As someone said you solution is to symlink or setup LVM volume groups for different mount points. Essentially, it’s all or nothing. You can’t just put a single program on a different disk without then taking all those files and manually symlinking them to the right place. It’s honestly one of the biggest Linux oversights.

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  • zlatko@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    XDG specifies the capital names, but to be nitpickingly technically precise, linux systems don’t do this. It mostly is done by the distribution maintainers, and the XDG specs. A base system does not usually have a notion of anything beyond your $HOME.

    Try adding a user: sudo adduser basicuser. If you ls -al ~basicuser you will see it’s almost empty, just the .bashrc (or in my fedora, there’s some .mozilla crap in /etc/skel that also gets bootstrapped).

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• UFODivebomb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like you style

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