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/
That’s what I was wondering as well?
If so, what’s the “correct” location to store stuff like documents, downloads, configurations, etc.?
So i checked the fhs. Doesn’t say it is deprecated. V3 just mentions XDG and glib (the probable sources of such claims).
In the user’s home directory, which may or may not be in /home/username.
grep username /etc/passwdwill show you the home directory for a user. Also~usernamefrom the CLI will resolve to that user’s home directory. e.g.cp file.txt ~username/Documents/