Hi,
I have been a Linux user for over a year now. I have regularly used Red Hat linux from 7.3 onwards and have also laid my hands upon Mandrake 8.
There seems to be some nagging questions in my mind whenever I use Linux and through this disucssion I want to discuss those because this will lead to other newbies getting to know about Linux products which exists and which these people are not aware of.
So here goes:

1) Is it technically possible to come up with a distribution iof Linux which has more friendly folder names. I have this major difficulty of remembering (for example) which local directory is where. As an example, why do not we have a Directory called "Installed Programs" instead of /usr/local or other "geeky" names.
If there are some distributions which adhere to such conventions, them why has the big giants, like Red Hat, SuSe, Madrake etc not followed suit.

2) One of the biggest problems in Linux is the (perceived) unavailabilty of Installer Programs (like InstallShield). I know that much work has been done in this regard and most major distributions have come up with really neat stuff, yet whenever I download something from , for example, sourceforge.net, I have to do the usual "configure, make, make install" stuff. Not that its hard to do it, but things go bad when the make file throws all sort of errors. It would be better if some installer program can give users some meaningful messages

Let me start with these two questions as the beginning and see what the user input is. I will keep posting further "nagging" questions, in the hope that this thread does not become a "Winblows vs, Linux" thread

Thankx in advance...