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[–] ngn@lemy.lol -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

honestly /home should has never been created we should have kept user homes in /usr

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee -3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

This is one of my biggest gripes stopping me from switching to Linux. I just can't give-up windows' partitions. I find Unix/Linux file system to be incompatible with how I like storing my files.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

This needs some modernization and simplification, if Linux ever wants to make it to the mainstream.

This is a much better layout:
/system (contains /boot, /dev, /proc, /run, /sys, /tmp and /var, all the stuff no one ever looks at)
/config (/etc renamed to something sensible)
/apps (contains /bin, /sbin, /usr, /lib and /opt)
/server (renamed /srv, only gets created when needed)
/users (renamed /home, also contains /root now)

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