Thread: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
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egoshin is offline egoshin
2010-10-12 , 20:10
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#111
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
I find it amusing that someone whose sum total experience with programming is with Visual Basic, is lecturing us on how bad the Linux file system layout is, and asking why can't it be more like Windows.
No, he touches a serious issue. Just one example - the original Unix had only /bin, /dev, /etc and /usr, that's it. Then users asked the place to put their files which are common between them ---> /usr/bin and a couple of directories were created under /usr.

Later the same history cycle turned again at least twice with /usr/local and /usr/share. Finally we have /opt and the issue of structuring it is under way to us.