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I am deeply concerned about your inability to understand what is happening in this thread.

Let me break it down for you:

- User posts that they wish Windows filesystem organization was "nice" like Linux's

- I express doubt that anyone can consider Linux's filesystem organization "nice"

- You start telling me about AppImages and how even though very nearly every single distro on the planet organizes files a certain way, it isn't technically required to do so.

Please explain to me why you think your continued "help" and "suggestions" should be something I value? I am not "having trouble with my Linux filesystem organization", I am straight-up criticizing the way nearly every distro that exists organizes files. That's a very different thing.

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Please don't make these insulting and condescending comments, this is against the site guidelines. If you think my understanding is wrong then just explain it, you don't have to insult me. Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. AppImages (or really any similar packaging method) also technically run on very nearly every single distro on the planet so if those were improved, it seems like that would change some of your criticism. You don't have to value my suggestions, that's why they're suggestions and not requirements.

Although I guess I don't understand, where is your criticism coming from if not from a period of past or current frustration with the filesystem organization? I'm only responding to the criticism as you wrote it because I think there are ways that the core problem can be solved. From the point of view of how we solve it, it doesn't seem like it is a different thing. Does that make sense?

> Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is.

...which is irrelevant, because the original poster I was responding to is saying that the current standard is nice, and I was disagreeing.

So just to be clear, what would be relevant to you and what could be done to solve this? Since you already knew about AppImages and consider them a solution, could we say your criticism is essentially that not enough applications are using AppImages? (And if you were wondering, I am not associated with AppImages in any way, I'm just another person trying to talk to you about problems on Linux)

I am not interested in this discussion, as I have had it dozens of times (probably hundreds over the past 20 years) and find the effort tedious.

Me too, that's why I'm asking about ways we can solve it for real so we can avoid the circular discussion. I've seen a great many people complaining that the Linux filesystem is "broken" but putting forth little effort to communicate their requirements or fix things. Please, let's be better than that.

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