Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C7?= deprecated Linux commands you need to stop using - and what to use =?UTF-8?Q?instead=E2=80=9D?= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:02:49 -0800 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 16 Message-ID: <20260123080249.00005e31@gmail.com> References: <10k93b3$9rp0$1@dont-email.me> <10kblbd$13oio$5@dont-email.me> <10kbub4$16n2s$1@dont-email.me> <10kdjk7$1ntob$3@dont-email.me> <10kgjtj$2olv6$1@dont-email.me> <10kl5g4$9urb$1@dont-email.me> <03o14mx916.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10kp6qv$126fr$1@dont-email.me> <10kpjv2$1qg7h$2@dont-email.me> <10kq4fc$1vi98$1@dont-email.me> <10krl70$2gp9v$3@dont-email.me> <10kss7l$2su5b$1@dont-email.me> <10ktn5o$378e7$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="de10a861041f23cf84824f52ed3c7620"; logging-data="4153305"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19siFoKZ1AMpk7DG3Za+8FVLCEXl0eUGwE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:hWm1NwmQHSLbmucSRUuk6vEQ+lc= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81553 On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:35:50 -0800 Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Foolish innovaters as in Canonical have allowed "/home" to be mounted > only in "/"(root) which is to my ideas of Linux is practically > disgusting. I'm curious about this, as all I can find on a brief Web search is discussions of whether and how to set up a separate /home partition on Ubuntu, rather than anything about it being disallowed. (How would you even *do* that, anyway?) I mean, Ubuntu would not be on my list of preferred distros in any case (I can do without built-in spyware, thankyouverymuch,) but I'm not seeing much to back up this specific claim.