My Documents should not be used as most of the files in My Documents
would not be Documents (eg. music, videos).
Home or Home Folder is incorrect, since this implies /home, not
/home/[user].
Using [User] (or My Files, [User]'s Files or similar) would lose
the meaning of the /home/[user] structure. This would be the best option
if /home/[user] was, perhaps, replaced by /users/[user]. This loses
continuity with other Linux distros though that isn't necessarily a bad
thing - users ofter refer to Ubuntu separately to Linux anyway!
Compatibility wouldn't be lost with other distros since ~/ would
redirect to /users/[user]. Difficulty comes with transferring /home
partitions to/from other distros or older versions of Ubuntu.
[User]'s Home is the best option using the current /home/[user] system. It
makes the home meaning clear whilst not confusing (indeed emphasising) new
users with the difference between /home and /home/[user].
This issue with this comes with the translation. However, each translation
could choose its own option, just use User, or My Home, or their own
translation, or just the English word Home - after all, Ubuntu isn't an
English word and yet we all know what it means, Home could be known by
everyone to be the cosy place you go to while it looks after all your files!
As far as the English version of Ubuntu is concerned, I believe
[User]'s Home is by far superior to the other options.
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Home Folder has 3 different names
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