Nothing makes me feel dumber than trying to figure out where the heck anything is or gets placed in my Ubuntu machine.
And this is made somewhat worse by Linux file managers trying to hide any part of the filesystem that’s not your home folder or mounted drives.
I get why it’s done, the directory structure of your average Linux install is an absolute maze that’s sometimes confusing even for the technically inclined, let alone the home users targeted by major distributions. It’s ultimately treating the symptom and not the cause, though, and I think more Linux distributions should give serious thought to modernizations of their filesystem structures (as Gobo has).
It’s tempting to play with this myself. My goals would be to come up with a structure that’s reasonably self-explanatory, guides novices away from the dragons, and allows file managers to hide very little (maybe nothing) without consequence.
"dev" is obviously for developers. "run" is where the apps are located. "bin" is the recycle bin.
Corporate jargon is how companies hide away inefficiencies and illegalities. Now, jargon is usually not that, but most of the time it is. The same way programmers said a kilobyte is 1024 bytes (seriously?)
To add to your point, yes, do ask a random person what notepad.exe doe vs what vi or emacs does.
Fun comes when you have things like minecraft launchers that contain everything and all the worlds and saves inside the bundle.
You also _should_ write to a third party folder, preferably `~/Library/Application\ Support`. It's what it's for, after all.
While I agree with that in principle, in practice that's not true for a lot of applications that put a lot of stuff into ~/Library and /Library, and it's not unusual to see multi-step manual instructions on how to uninstall some apps on macOS. (Especially important if those apps add Login items) Windows' Add/Remove Programs at least gives a central space to trigger an uninstall, and most apps stick to it properly.