Am 22.11.24 um 08:47 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
What is the benefit of .local/bin over bin? $HOME clutter is not a good reason. Look at all the desktop folders that are set up. Maybe some of them could go away. Does anyone really store their videos in $HOME/Videos? Or their MP3s in $HOME/Music? Or their documents in $HOME/Documents? etc.
These directories are not set up for every new user with useradd. They are created by stupid desktop environments. Sometimes even locale-dependent, which is even worse, but this has nothing to do with this thread.
It makes no difference to me as I will continue with bin. But then people will say that not using .local/bin is bad design as, after all, it is set up for each user.
No, it is not. There is no .local/bin/ in /etc/skel, only bin/ I think neither .local/bin/ nor bin/ should be created by default. And I use a rather heavily populated ~/bin ;-) -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman