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> binaries in Linux reside in a few directories (/opt and /usr)). and .local/bin and $HOME/bin and $that_path_where_python_and_ruby_put_stuff and let's not fo

• pizza234 6y ago
  There's no limit to where applications can put their files, and this applies to any operating system, so complaining about, say, version managers has nothing to do with a given operating system. If you take Windows, you're going to have %USERPROFILE%.pyenv for example, when it comes to Python (pyenv). It's unlikely, but not impossible, that a binary ends under /usr/lib, since it wouldn't be in $PATH. If it's there, it's likely invoked via a script somewhere, and this is not good practice, and again, not inherently Linux. $HOME/.local/bin is not good practice, for the same reason (not being in the standard $PATH). $HOME/bin seems actually a good place for placing user-specific binaries, since there must be one place for them, and I think it's a proper place.