An inconvenient truth

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Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> No, I don't mean the capabilities of the file system itself (ie, NTFS vs
> ext3), in fact, that stuff you mentioned (8.3 filenames or case
> sensitivity are things I consider as disadvantages)
> 
> I meant rather the way the Linux filesystem is organized (ie,
> /usr,/dev,/etc, /mnt,/opt,/bin ... etc.) the way mounts have to be made,
> etc.. Without going into detail, I don't like that the OS is spread
> across several directories. I would rather all the OS data were under
> one directory only. So the default directories after installation would
> only be 3: one for the OS, one for user data, one for programs. The same
> thing can be said of programs, I really dislike the traditional unix way
> of installing programs on several different directories, one for
> binaries, one for libraries, one for documentation, one for other
> data... ugh.

There are two ways to organize files - by program, and by type.

Both cannot be pushed into the same tree hierarchy.

Linux prioritizes one, Windows the other.

Obviously, what we need is a tag-based filesystem :)