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Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory (itsfoss.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev

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If you are using a rolling release distro like Arch, you might have noticed that your home directory now has a new member, a new folder called "Projects".

For as long as I remember, Linux has always had a set of default folders under the home directory. Usually they are Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos and Downloads. Templates, Desktop and Public folders are also there.

Now we have a new addition in the form of "Projects".

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I made SO MANY directories under home that could have just been ~/Projects that I'm annoyed with myself for not doing something so simple.

.... I'll be using the projects directory heavily going forward

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 17 hours ago

I think that's what normal people have been doing for decades.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As someone who has used ~/Projects for years and has syncing and other setup around it I am (very slightly) terrified this change could somehow fuck with me.

Please let this just be a mkdir call that will fail.

[–] dreamy@quokk.au 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm on Artix Linux and it did automatically create it after an update.

It likely just runs xdg-user-dirs-update which, in my experience, doesn't delete anything if the folder is already there (the command just changed the folder icon in the file manager when I used to run it on a WM).

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 10 points 2 days ago

I also use a Projects folder. It looks like it probably won't break anything. Apps might start putting stuff there by default, hopefully in sensible subdirectories. There's a note in the article that you can create ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to specify where you want files to go.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nope. Only makes for new installs, and only uses it as a save spot default if the application asks for it. Should be no change at all.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

New installs, or new users? I'd assume the latter?

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 days ago

When I read it originally (a bit back, maybe a week or two ago) it was new installs that was noted, though new users would make sense.

I guess I'll find out soon enough on a test box.

[–] nightmare786@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago

it's excessive for me. I'll continue putting my projects with my documents.