I’ve seen a lot of self-hosted software wanting to store their data in /opt, is there any reason why?

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    10 months ago

    In the user’s home directory, which may or may not be in /home/username.

    grep username /etc/passwd will show you the home directory for a user. Also ~username from the CLI will resolve to that user’s home directory. e.g. cp file.txt ~username/Documents/