On Friday, March 30, 2018 09:57:02 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Anyway, these days, I store all my "real user data" in directories other > than ~, these include directories like /<user>01, /<user>02, (e.g., > /bob01, /bob02, /back01, back02), and I have no fear / reluctance to > create other such top level directories when I feel a need to. (On the > other hand, most of my real user data is under directories like (e.g.,) > /bob01, e.g., /bob01/photos, /bob01/documents, ... > > The one thing I still don't like is that the "user configuration data" is > stored as hidden files in ~. I configure any file manager or similar > software that I use to show hidden files.
Just one (or two) additional thoughts: * I can somewhat understand the use of /home for both types of data back in the days when a *nix system had many users--having all of the personalized data under one directory (/home) made many tasks easier for the admins (e.g., they only had to backup one directory to preserve all user data. * with that in mind, some of my proposals to various people (including the FHS) included things like creating a new directory, then keeping one named /home and naming the new one either something like /data (for real user data, and keeping the configuation data in /home, or vice versa--keeping the real user data in /home and creating a new top level directory named maybe something like /config for user configuration data.
