• @adrianmalacoda
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    63 years ago

    As others have said it’s so the user can place their own executables on the PATH. Ubuntu supports this too, if you look in ~/.profile you will find this snippet

    # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
    if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
        PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
    fi
    

    I believe the current convention is to use ~/.local/bin for this purpose, and ~/bin is an older convention.