On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:09:37 +0000, Attila Pinter via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
On Tuesday, November 26th, 2024 at 6:25 PM, Robert Webb via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
[...] My preference for keeping the default creation of ~/bin for new accounts is because it is convenient for me, but also to guide inexperienced users to use the conventional place for their scripts and binary executables.
TBH I didn't really get the rest of your argument - well didn't make sense to me personally -, but just to follow up on the "inexperienced user" argument: Wouldn't it make more sense to give them transferable knowledge? So if they find themselves on a different distro - say at work - they're not trying to figure out how to get their scripts in $HOME/bin to work?
I think the presence of ~/bin sends a message that this is an appropriate place to put your scripts. Its absence would strongly send the opposite message. It is a type of common knowledge passed along, not by a standards organization dictating things, but by the visible existence of structures built up by people over time. -- Robert Webb