I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It’s exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.
I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It’s exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.
When switching from Windows, it was very confusing to me, that program files where all over the place. It was before (almost) every distro switched to the /usr directory, so it was even worse than it is now. Even now, when I understand more about Linux than before, I still prefer the Windows way.
I think that this hierarchy is nice for people moving from Windows, but experienced enough that they could understand the docs and tweak the OS.
I was actually surprised that this distro was designed with more experienced people in mind, I thought it was for beginners.
Doesn’t Windows leave program files and data all over the place too?
Two “program files” folders, user and generic “appdata”, wherever the user unpacks things, yeah
Yes, most people aren’t aware of it as they’ve seen inside Program Files and assumed that was all the program’s data.
Well, the configuration and state in both cases is all over the place. I admit that since the move to push program directories to /usr and the XDG share/config directories the problem has been largely solved. I only shared my perception when I was learning Linux, which was right after Mandriva came out
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