Okay UNIX/BSD/Linux People, which do you prefer?

[brad@1040ste.net]

@nuintari /export/home if I'm roaming

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@nuintari

"Everything goes into the /usr hole"

No!

[stenhaastrup@eupolicy.social]

@nuintari @catsalad and executables in /usr/🗑️

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@nuintari@bsd.cafe Heh missing the original /usr :D

Also as much as I can appreciate illumos, /export/home is just annoying.

[klausman@mas.to]

@nuintari @catsalad For git checkouts, I do like the indication of "dirtiness" and being behind the remote branch, but only for small repos/on fast computers. In text, that is, not emoji.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@nuintari @catsalad I think bash/zsh can do this too, with some scripting.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@christopherkunz @catsalad See my post in greater detail, it absolutely was bash.

Never used zsh, but wouldn't be surprised.

[xyhhx@social.treehouse.systems]

@nuintari /var/home 🤓

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@klausman @catsalad Yeah, you could do that shit with a single character, such as an asterisk.

[klausman@mas.to]

@nuintari @catsalad I think the default git-prompt.sh that ships with git on Debian does a reasonable job of being terse but informative, plus it's configurable.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@nuintari @catsalad This is how it's done in zsh: https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Appendix-A:-Git-in-Other-Environments-Git-in-Zsh

[whynotzoidberg@topspicy.social]

@nuintari can't have SPACE so "Something else" won't work.

Who me dad jokes?

[neonutopia@mastodon.pub.solar]

@nuintari I used silverblue for a long time, and I think its convention of /var/home makes the most sense. After all, your user folder is sort of like your own personal database.

[otagi@mastodon.cloud]

@nuintari @catsalad I wouldn’t feel at home without the branch name in the prompt. (using starship.rs)

[leeloo@chaosfem.tw]

@WhyNotZoidberg @nuintari
You mean C:\HOME? Or is it B:\HOME?

That was how it was written on the OS that couldn't handle spaces.

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@nuintari
/root

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@neonutopia /var is technically for temporary and transient files, at least according to hier(7) on FreeBSD. There is nothing temporary about most of my $HOME.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@leeloo @WhyNotZoidberg That isn't an OS, that is the most successful computer virus of all time.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@otagi @catsalad Probably makes more sense for people who spend more time developing than I. I spend my time spread across dozens of machines, I can't stay sane without the hostname in my prompt. Similar problem, similar solution.

[joschi@hachyderm.io]

@christopherkunz @nuintari @catsalad Nah, just use Starship. 😉
https://starship.rs/