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

submitted 4 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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[–] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 69 points 4 days ago (11 children)

I like this idea. I've been doing pretty much the same thing for a while now, though it's been a subdirectory of Documents.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 51 points 4 days ago (8 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

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 16 points 4 days ago (5 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 2 days 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).

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