I'm overwelmed with the combination of newness and choice in this Linux world, although it's generally what I hoped for and I assume that it will just take time. But one thing that I think is getting in my way is the file system structure. First, I can't identify what kind of file something is by its extension. Second, I don't know what kinds of files belong in etc say, or bin, or whichever. If it's an executable, should be be in home/bin, user bin, home/peter, ...? And what is Lib? I thought at first that this was a library section for documents, but see that it seems to be for certain kinds of executables (files that other files need?) Some Linux "basic" books that I've seen imply that you can put things wherever you want, "That's part of the beauty of ..." I've downloaded a couple of programs already and don't have any sense of where I should be putting the download, and then where to expand it. Surprisingly (to me), I have not found any description anywhere of what the default, or standard, or even common file system layouts are. I've tried to search arount and see where the different parts of existing programs are located, but that doesn't seem to work for me. Back to file extensions, etc, how do you know what kind of file you have before you if you select it? Properties doesn't tell you anything, and if I click on it and it is not a text file I get an Open With... That's just what I don't know. It just occurred to me that I'm talking KDE here, but I don't think using the command line would help, until such time that I already knew some of the answers. Are there any Linux or Unix documents that would describe standard/common/acceptable file/directory types. Thanks to anyone who has any suggestions. I don't mean to sound angry (or even critical) I am just a bit frustrated. I need some rules to learn so that I can put them together.
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