Criticism of Linux - Directory Structure

Directory Structure

The traditional directory structure, which is a heritage from Linux's Unix roots in the 1970s, has often been criticized:

The file system is a nightmare for a normal user. This has been covered in exhaustive detail by hundreds of articles …

Two distributions, GoboLinux and moonOS, have the goal of reforming this directory structure.

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