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User System Resources

• user-the-name 6y ago
  That is not what it meant when it was created. Apparently some people have retroactively tried to change it mean that, but, that is just a complete nonsense phrase.
  • artimaeis 6y ago
    Right, as far as I understand it originally was just short for "user". It's where home directories of users were placed. Now that it's been relegated to storing user-usable programs & data it makes sense to me that it's separate from say /Users, but I suppose it could be aliased to something like /UserProgramsAndData for verboseness and clarity to newer users. But regardless, "User System Resources" is a fairly useful phrase, it's there to separate their system resources (programs & data) from their personal resources (which should be in their user directory). But, a system _does_ have users. Those users _do_ have programs. There's a hierarchical relationship. I've been following along with your comments in this thread and I just don't follow what you're getting at here.
    • user-the-name 6y ago
      If you designed this from scratch, is that the name you would naturally pick?
      • flippinburgers 6y ago
        If the naming of the path is where you are hanging the crux of your argument about how "bad" things are, then you are not making a terribly convincing argument.
        • user-the-name 6y ago
          It is not. It is just one example out of a million of how things are weird and non-obvious for pointless reasons.