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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by CRConrad on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:05AM (#30020991)
> not quite as bad as Windows having two oddly named Program Files directories, but still

At least three, if you inclde "Roaming\Appdata" (or is it "Appdata\Roaming"?), which is also a program files directory nowadays.

As for Linux, yeah... Either stick with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or -- if it's time to revolutionise the directory structure -- maybe something like what GoboLinux (et al?) are doing.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by tremon on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:54AM (#30022759)
On my Guix systems, I've gone full obstinate idiot:

- / is on tmpfs

- the OS is mounted on /gnu

- system data is mounted on /var (and /etc is populated from /var/etc)

- user data is mounted on /usr

This way, I can avoid the plethora of separate tmpfs filesystems on most distro's (at least /dev, /run, /tmp, /dev/shm).

But I'm not running any desktop systems on Guix right now, just service containers. I'm would expect there to be plenty of Linux desktop software that can't handle /usr being for user data.

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