The Windows has a system-wide variables (incl. PATH) applicable everywhere. In contrast, the Linux situation is touched in the submitted article.
All of these directions only work if you’re running the program from your shell. If you’re running the program from an IDE, from a GUI, in a cron job, or some other way, you’ll need to add the directory to your PATH in a different way, and the exact details might depend on the situation.
I’m honestly not sure how to handle it in an IDE/GUI because I haven’t run into that in a long time, will add directions here if someone points me in the right direction.
The ~/.pam_environment was the equivalent to Windows' environment variables but has been deprecated and supposedly systemd's environment.d took over its functionality.
I don't know what she means about setting the PATH for a GUI. If you want to run a program from the GUI you add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and provide the full path to the binary as part of the Exec key[0]
You can also override the actual PATH variable for an application in the .desktop file as well, or any environment variable, with the Environment key, if that's what she means.
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The Windows has a system-wide variables (incl. PATH) applicable everywhere. In contrast, the Linux situation is touched in the submitted article.
The ~/.pam_environment was the equivalent to Windows' environment variables but has been deprecated and supposedly systemd's environment.d took over its functionality.
I don't know what she means about setting the PATH for a GUI. If you want to run a program from the GUI you add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and provide the full path to the binary as part of the Exec key[0]
You can also override the actual PATH variable for an application in the .desktop file as well, or any environment variable, with the Environment key, if that's what she means.
0 https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/la...
you can just stick it in /etc/environment and reboot if you want