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 existsif [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
I believe the current convention is to use ~/.local/bin for this purpose, and ~/bin is an older convention.
As others have said it’s so the user can place their own executables on the
PATH. Ubuntu supports this too, if you look in~/.profileyou will find this snippet# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fiI believe the current convention is to use
~/.local/binfor this purpose, and~/binis an older convention.