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Right, as far as I understand it originally was just short for "user". It's where home directories of users were placed. Now that it's been relegated to storing user-usable programs & data it makes sense to me that it's separate from say /Users, but I suppose it could be aliased to something like /UserProgramsAndData for verboseness and clarity to newer users. But regardless, "User System Resources" is a fairly useful phrase, it's there to separate their system resources (programs & data) from their personal resources (which should be in their user directory).

But, a system _does_ have users. Those users _do_ have programs. There's a hierarchical relationship. I've been following along with your comments in this thread and I just don't follow what you're getting at here.




If you designed this from scratch, is that the name you would naturally pick?


If the naming of the path is where you are hanging the crux of your argument about how "bad" things are, then you are not making a terribly convincing argument.


It is not. It is just one example out of a million of how things are weird and non-obvious for pointless reasons.




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