Why so many people use ~/bin/? What’s wrong with ~/.local/bin?

impoppy • today at 11:40 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

1313ed01 • today at 12:01 PM

Random things are installed in ~/.local/bin. In ~/bin I have only what I put there.

dark-star • today at 11:48 AM

~/bin/ preceeds the XDG Base Directory Specification.

~/.local was only invented around 2003 and gained widespread usage maybe 15 years or so ago...

People used ~/bin already in the 90s ;-)

zhouzhao • today at 11:44 AM

Nothing. I also use `~/.local/bin/`

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