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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by dijit on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:26PM (#23158542)
Maybe you can check out openbsd.

It's as opinionated as you are.

(FWIW there has always been a level of consistency in Linux w.r.t. file paths, if you stick to your distribution maintainers packages)

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by freefriedrice on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:54PM (#23159654)
In another post I point out that BSD has done a great job keeping things consistent, whereas linux is a bit of a freeforall trying new stuff.
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by pnutjam on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:07AM (#23166503)
Not if you stick with Suse (OpenSUSE) or RedHat (centOS).
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by vel0city on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:36PM (#23174185)
Gee, I need to change a setting on $APP. Wait, is that a config file in /etc/$app/? Or did they put that in /var/lib/$app/? Huh, can't find the setting I'm looking for there, guess I better check /etc/sysconfig/$app...

Usually, developers are sane and put things in /etc. However, there are a number of very common applications which have configurations strewn all over the place. Bonus points for apps which have even additional configurations in their systemd service files!

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by pnutjam on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:24AM (#23191860)
Rpm will tell you where installed files are:

rpm -ql <package>

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