Harvey Contrary to popular beleif /usr/ does not stand for User it stands for Unix System Resources.

If I remember correctly that's a backronym and it originally actually stood for "User", but I can't find a good source for either claim atm.

edit: Still haven't found a source that says it directly, but:

"In particular, in our own version of the system, there is a directory "/usr" which contains all user's directories, and which is stored on a relatively large, but slow moving head disk, while the othe files are on the fast but small fixed-head disk. "
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html

"A person is either the name of an entry in the directory
/usr, in which case the mail is sent to
/usr/person/mailbox, or the path name of a directory, in
which case mailbox in that directory is used."
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man12.pdf

All the entries in the "User-managed Software" part of the Unix 7th Edition manual have a /usr path
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man61.pdf

      Staudey

      Yeah. FreeBSD held on to this for a very long time.

      The pw(8) and bsdinstall(8) programs now create home directories for users in /home by default rather than /usr/home.

      Source: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/

      The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard frustratingly never states what /usr stands for but it probably was User at some point. It still is mixed usage because /usr/local is still part of the standard.

      The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated.

      Source: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#usrlocalLocalHierarchy

      EDIT:
      History of why home was moved out of /usr https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1477109665-Unix-directory-hierarchy-history

        @Harvey @Staudey

        Wow I've spent some time with this reading---I'm becoming a student of unix history!
        "Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969? Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5 megabytes each) for storage."

        good god it basically stayed that way thru the 80s-90s didn't it? I mean a handful of MBs always got the job done.
        The hierarchy reading fascinating too

        The following is also a nice resource with some background information that describes the FSSTND ("Filesystem Standard", precursor to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard or FHS)

        https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html

        /usr usually contains by far the largest share of data on a system. Hence, this is one of the most important directories in the system as it contains all the user binaries, their documentation, libraries, header files, etc.... X and its supporting libraries can be found here. User programs like telnet, ftp, etc.... are also placed here. In the original Unix implementations, /usr was where the home directories of the users were placed (that is to say, /usr/someone was then the directory now known as /home/someone). In current Unices, /usr is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system land' programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended.
        https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html

        But it gives no additional source for that claim.

        One more thing I could find is this: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=127276011001745&w=2

        But that mostly just says what we already know (that user directories were located in /usr). Once again only circumstantial evidence for the origin of the abbreviation.

        Then there is that one Rob Landley mail, which is also mention in the "Unix directory hierarchy history" article Harvey linked, which confidently claims:

        When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their
        root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, which is where all the
        user home directories lived (which is why the mount was called /usr).
        http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

        I suppose Thompson and Ritchie just saw it as self-evident because I can't find any direct quote or note from them describing the name choice. I could've sworn I saw something like that at one point, but I certainly can't find anything now.
        All in all I'm pretty sure /usr meant "user" in the beginning, and because that is confusing with how those directories are used nowadays someone coined the "Unix System Resources" backronym to draw attention away from the original meaning and have people focus on the (new) de facto meaning of the directory.

        Sebastian No, you can just in terminal do sudo nano /etc/environment and add GSK_RENDERER=gl there

        been two days. not a glitch. but sometimes it goes many days without a glitch. but nothing 'slow out of the gate' either. so time will tell. I think it made a difference to add the gsk, though.

        thanks again. p.s.---how do you know all this stuff? 🙂

            brent Well, I don't know that much. Most things I know is because I was experiening an issue and googled and found something out by accident. Same with this issue. With introduction of GNOME46 my system began to behave weird. First I ignored it and thought, well, someone will solve it. Then it persisted and I did some research.
            To be sure you can wait maybe a week. Then, when no strange behaviour occured, undo it by running sudo nano /etc/environment in terminal and put a # before GSK_RENDERER=gl,save and reboot and just observe if strange behaviour returns. Then you can be pretty sure that you found the source of your weird behaviour.

              Sebastian Thanks for starting this, Sebastian! It's great to have a designated space for off-topic chats within the forum. I agree, it's nice to see the community come together and exchange ideas beyond Solus-related topics. Let's keep it light, respectful, and enjoyable for everyone. Looking forward to seeing where this experiment takes us!

                  hsmaan Hey @hsmaan , I appreciate your comment. I had observed many times that people started to chat in some other discussions here in the forum and were then told to stay on-topic, and rightfully so. But it always also meant a abrupt end to the chat that started to unfold. Which lead me to the conclusion that we need a place designated to chatting unrelated to some specific topic. So that we can tell people in future: please continue your off-topic conversation in Community Hangout
                  Here we are 🙂

                      I'm wondering - if it's possible to get elementary OS login screen to work on Solus? AFAIK it's lightdm based. It's pretty slick. I wouldn't mind using it.

                        You have me thinking about checking out Elementary again. Last time I lasted a day and a half LOL. I used it as a daily driver for a few months during its prime. Now it's just a kludgy mess with a great DE (My favorite).

                        edit: I do use their icon set with Solus Gnome

                          riffer

                          I got the daily build of elementary 8 as a subscriber. It's not useable for production yet, but pretty cool.

                            10 days later

                            I have been busy. Not with writing as I should, but with gaming.

                            This is my Tiefling Warlock. I know DnD is big in the US, but not in Denmark - so I have to play DnD games on the computer.

                            When Findus (my cat) starts to eat mice inside my appartment I put my headphones on with music. It's an unpleasent crunchy sound when there's mice on the menu.

                            Sebastian

                            Reminds me of Mr. Bean where he has to greet the Queen at a reception of some sort. Then knock her out with a bow - head to head, litterally.