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Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018) by CharlesW on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:24PM (#26846739)
> Every flavour of Linux uses a different layout for its root directories, stores configs in different places and generally is not consistent from distro to distro.

As a very casual Linux user (macOS is my daily driver), are there any efforts to solve these "death by 1,000 cuts" arbitrary (I assume) differences?

Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018) by grawprog on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:29PM (#26846786)
Not really no. The differences between distros are essentially rooted in philosophical beliefs defended by near religious zealotry. Entire identies are defined around the differences between distros.

A bit of an exaggeration, but well...pretty much that.

Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018) by smoldesu on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:21PM (#26847132)
These differences mostly come down to package manager variations, which should be one of the main considerations when picking out a distro in the first place. My personal advice is to use Arch/Manjaro with pacman, and avoid all snaps/flatpaks. The AUR is designed for people to integrate these apps like Spotify and Bitwig into the proper locations, instead of snaps and flatpaks making their own folders and such.
Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018) by drran on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:07AM (#26850949)
See File System Hierarchy Standard[0], or `man hier`.

[0]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml