I mean fair enough, but it made me laugh.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Can confirm. It always seems overly verbose, though. Why not just bin? Or Rubbish? Nobody IRL would ever say “rubbish bin”.

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      13 hours ago

      I guess because ‘bin’ is a shorthand of ‘binary’, that is, the directory where all your executable files reside, so the developers felt a need to clarify that /usr/bin isn’t to be cleaned.

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        I thought the ‘bin’ folder in program folders was where they put trash for longer than I’d like to admit. >_<