I’ve seen a lot of self-hosted software wanting to store their data in /opt, is there any reason why?

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    3 months ago

    That’s what I was wondering as well?

    If so, what’s the “correct” location to store stuff like documents, downloads, configurations, etc.?

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      3 months ago

      In the user’s home directory, which may or may not be in /home/username.

      grep username /etc/passwd will show you the home directory for a user. Also ~username from the CLI will resolve to that user’s home directory. e.g. cp file.txt ~username/Documents/

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      3 months ago

      So i checked the fhs. Doesn’t say it is deprecated. V3 just mentions XDG and glib (the probable sources of such claims).