I still wish this wasn't all that hard-coded. A plethora of prefixes, the whole "/usr" directory from the start (which used to be "/home" back in the days), com

I still wish this wasn't all that hard-coded. A plethora of prefixes, the whole "/usr" directory from the start (which used to be "/home" back in the days), compiling software to depend on variant paths, huge PATH variables and the hassle to define them in the proper place, application data all strewn about etc. Yes, there's stow/homebrew like deployment with app-specific directories and linking to solve some of these problems… But I really wish union mounts would be more common, both global and on a per-process basis. Thus you'd just have a /bin directory and just put everything in there, no matter on what partition or under which "real" directory it actually is.