On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:58:30 -0700 "Timothy D. Lenz" tlenz@vorgon.com wrote:
To me, dumping files all over the drives is messy, sloppy, and bad practice. Always has been and always will be. Someone just wants to copy MS stupidity into linux.
I think some features from the FHS predate Windows and even Microsoft. Having every file belonging to an application in the same place is insecure and makes it more difficult to support things like multiple users or one user with multiple PCs, especially if some of them are thin clients.