.profile works nicer if you run another Shell, I presume, so can be added to every users home directory upon creation and not just to those of Bash users. What

.profile works nicer if you run another Shell, I presume, so can be added to every users home directory upon creation and not just to those of Bash users. What I don’t get is why RVM adds a .bash_profile, when there is, for example, /etc/profile.d/.