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Re:Why is it so hard to find a file in Ubuntu? (2011) by mercurial on Thursday January 14, 2016 @01:34PM (#10903345)
On the other hand, "what's the point of this apparently pointless complexity?" is a very good question.
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Re:Why is it so hard to find a file in Ubuntu? (2011) by qwertyuiop924 on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:28AM (#10909131)
That's my point. On linux, there really is no distinction between /bin and /usr/bin. /usr/local/bin is different, as it's the designated location for stuff you install from source. /sbin is also different, because that's where you want your recovery tools. Although usually you'll boot into a livecd for recovery these days, so it's kind of moot.

Again, this about the only thing that systemd, fdo, etc. and I agree on.

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Re:Why is it so hard to find a file in Ubuntu? (2011) by digi_owl on Saturday January 16, 2016 @10:34AM (#10915509)
> Although usually you'll boot into a livecd for recovery these days, so it's kind of moot.

thats taking a very "desktop" view on things.

Many more systems run as headless installs in some rack somewhere.

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Re:Why is it so hard to find a file in Ubuntu? (2011) by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:21AM (#10930878)
Good point, actually. Sorry. I'm not a professional, so I've got less experience with that.
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