Introducing /run

Posted Apr 1, 2011 18:15 UTC (Fri) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Introducing /run by pyellman
Parent article: Introducing /run

I called you a troll because I genuinely did not see how anyone could hold the point of view you were espousing. Maybe I was a little bit too hasty.

Let me just rewind a bit. You said that:

> I would venture that the cryptic root naming convention is the most
> immediate, visible, and universal barrier to entry for potential new Linux
> users. The sad part is, it doesn't have to be so.

Yet MacOS has the same naming convention (except it doesn't have a /lib directory.) Somehow, nobody has found it to be an "immediate, visible and universal barrier to entry" for MacOS.