• bier@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Why did Linux systems go for capitals in the home folder? It’s actually kind of annoying and takes extra key presses.

    …A while later “XDG Base Directory Specification”

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      1 year ago

      XDG specifies the capital names, but to be nitpickingly technically precise, linux systems don’t do this. It mostly is done by the distribution maintainers, and the XDG specs. A base system does not usually have a notion of anything beyond your $HOME.

      Try adding a user: sudo adduser basicuser. If you ls -al ~basicuser you will see it’s almost empty, just the .bashrc (or in my fedora, there’s some .mozilla crap in /etc/skel that also gets bootstrapped).