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Why would Arch dropping the FHS be the tipping point? Surely Arch represents hackers and not mainstream Linux users. In much the same way I wouldn't cite Linux
by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Why would Arch dropping the FHS be the tipping point? Surely Arch represents hackers and not mainstream Linux users. In much the same way I wouldn't cite Linux users are a tipping point in any computer system convention (but Mac OS or Android or Windows), I wouldn't cite Arch in a Linux system convention (but Debian or Ubuntu or Red Hat). Why do you consider Arch as the tipping point?
- JdeBP 7y agoBecause it would be, if my suspicion proves to be the case, the point where adherence to the FHS tips over from being the norm to the exception. MacOS, Windows, and who Arch users are have nothing to do with it. How many distribution creators have made each of the various choices, does. Arch's decision to use systemd had some influence (in both directions, c.f. Hyperbola Linux). Arch's decision to abandon the FHS in favour of the systemd file-hierarchy may well do likewise.