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I am glad to hear this, as that book is very good. You could simply follow the well-written instructions inside without referring to anything else.

Yeah, I realize that Linux always assumes that it is a multi-user system, even though there is just one person using it. So, theoretically, it could be possible to have an app that have a single configuration directory regardless of which user is using it, but no one bothered to actually make...

That is exactly what I am going to do. I don't think I would enforce these right now. This was more of a theoretical issue for me. I have many OCD-like tendencies when working with computers, or in general. So, in my head, it "feels" much better if I know that I can manipulate where a program is...

Thank you, this is what I needed. Granted, I will not be applying this for now. It is good to know that I have the freedom to assign my directories for installation and configuration files if I ever need to.

Thank you. In the meantime, I guess that you probably wouldn't recommend doing this for a not-so-experienced user, I guess? I am guessing that as I learn more about Linux, this feeling of uncertainty would go away. However, how do experienced users deal with this? Is there something like whereis...

Looking forward to it. Also, just curious, what I took from this is that a user can modify the configuration and installation directory of specific software, right? However, is it also possible to make software store its settings in a relative path? For example, wherever the appimage file (or...

Thank you, now I understand why whereis won't work as it won't apply to flatpaks. Overall, what I got from this is that, technically, users could change installation and configuration directories of software, but it is just not worth it, since what we have currently just works?

I understand that it can be run, but won't it still save settings in a .appname folder in the home directory. Could it be theoretically made to store configurations inside the usb as well? Is there a specific reason as to why app developers do not offer configuration directory as an explicit...

This is what I was curious about. I was confused since Linux gives users a lot of options to configure many things that most people wouldn't know or care about but something that was a normal occurrence for windows users would mostly not exist here. Since developers do not bother to make...

That is what I was wondering. A few appimages I have used so far always created .appname files. So, I am guessing that even if I carried appimages inside a USB, the settings would still be saved locally. I don't doubt the efficiency of FHS. I am sure a lot of wisdom went into creating that...

Just to clarify, I am not asking anyone to mess up FHS. This is more of a theoretical question. After installing many apps and searching the name of an app returns so many folders named after the app and from their locations, one can see that some are configuration files, but it got a little...

I agree, the only problem is that my linux skills aren't advanced enough to find the distro that best fits me. Chances are I will keep using Linux Mint and choose a second diistro to learn in the future. I'm fine with that. This is actually what I was asking. So, it is theoretically possible to...

So, I have been getting used to Linux Mint for a few months now. I am planning to stay on Linux Mint till I get a more advanced understanding of how Linux works. One thing that is a little bit hard for me is having little to no control over where my settings are saved and where my programs are...