title: Cannot find ~/.composer folder after installing composer
body: <p>I have installed composer by the instructions given in their site for Ubuntu 16.04. Its giving the usual output after giving the 'composer' command in the terminal. 
  After installing composer, I have downloaded the composer using</p>
  
  <pre><code>composer global require "laravel/installer"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now to install Laravel, I have to add <code>$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin</code> in my path. But there is no .composer folder in my home directory. Can anybody tell me why this is happening ? </p>