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.?
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/So i checked the fhs. Doesn’t say it is deprecated. V3 just mentions XDG and glib (the probable sources of such claims).