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OpenSUSE why? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] adrianmalacoda@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

As others have said it's so the user can place their own executables on the PATH. Ubuntu supports this too, if you look in ~/.profile you will find this snippet

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

I believe the current convention is to use ~/.local/bin for this purpose, and ~/bin is an older convention.