GoboLinux: A distro that redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy
Coming from Windows a year or so ago, the Linux filesystem has been probably <i>the</i> most confusing thing about the switch (I&#x27;ve read about the logic behind &#x2F;var and &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;usr several times but it was not intuitive to me and didn&#x27;t stick). I generally have no idea where my config files are stored and can barely find where programs keep their data. And then I download some software that doesn&#x27;t install itself and I have to figure out where to put it... The fact that this is all only sorta-kinda standardized between distributions, and that you often have separate config files for the system, for the user, and for the session doesn&#x27;t help either.<p>It&#x27;s not clear that GoboLinux entirely solves this issue but at first glance it looks like it&#x27;s trying and the &#x2F;Programs organization is pretty intuitive.<p>What&#x27;s not appealing at all though is using a distro that doesn&#x27;t have custom packages for all the software I&#x27;m using (aka is not Ubuntu or RedHat based). I&#x27;m not at all comfortable building from source--when I&#x27;ve tried it I&#x27;ve rarely been successful--and the prospect of further winnowing down my choices (from not just Linux-compatible software to software that however many GoboLinux users have uploaded to their Recipes directory) is, well, pretty intimidating.