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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    What? People still do that 🤨? I mean... we used to do it when disk space was expensive, but come on, I live in a 3rd world country (not exactly, but it might as well be true) and even I can say that disk space nowadays is dirt cheap. I mean $25 for a 256GB (250, 240, whatever) SSD? That is dirt cheap.

    And you can also do it in Linux, but you'll have to do it manually by symlinking, since the package manager won't allow you to install in other locations.

    You can also use separate drives for home and the main install. You can define that in fstab by mounting the separate drive in /home which also kinda solves the problem with disk space, I guess. It's also a nice feature when you have to reinstall or try another distro, since all of your settings are already there, you just install everything you might need from the repo and that's it.

    Almost every app that has a GUI makes a desktop entry in the applications menu. There are exceptions, but this is just bad packaging, and it's very rare to be honest. Besides, in those few cases you can make your own "shrotcut" (.desktop file) and place it in /usr/share/applications and it will show up in the applications menu.

    It's just a getting used to thing. I know, because I have jumped ship. It's more or less the same thing, except you use the terminal more (cmd or PS in Windows), but some things are just easier done in the terminal then a GUI. Let's take the above example. You have an app that doesn't have an installer or the installer doesn't make Start menu entries. You'd have to make a shortcut and copy that shortcut to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\StartMenu\Programs in order for it to show up in the start menu. It's more or less the same if you ask me 🤷.