Ahh, I was wondering why there's a Projects next to my projects, I thought I just made a typo at some point
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how about first getting programs to put dotfiles into the .config folder (opposed to .programname) instead of adding more folders that are inconsistent over distros for multiple years before the point of a default for IDEs and CAD programs can even be meaningfully made?
Hah, thats funny, I... literally have a 'Projects' folder, though I'm running Bazzite.
hoists suspenders
Yep, made that folder on my own, gets the job done, mhrm.
... lol
(pleasedonotlookinsidetheProjectsfolderdeargoditissuchamess)
i got work
lol same. Great minds think alike I guess
Honestly I say just let the user decide what goes in their home directory. I always get annoyed at all the random garbage in there. There should be a specific place that is user owned that isn't filled with cruft and configuration files
The user does decide, XDG user directories are optional and configurable. Since they are already established, user-friendly distros / desktop environments already pre-install them.
And what speaks against just using a new directory within your home directory as your "specific place that is user owned that isn't filed with cruft and configuration files"?
Yeah, I have essentially never used these folders unless a program sticks something there by default (mostly pictures).
I just save everything to ~/Desktop anyway.
A thing I started doing years ago, to combat trashing to ~/Desktop or ~/Downloads:
Set /tmp as your default download directory.
At least for me, almost everything I download is just ephemeral and would collect dust
Putting it there causes it to be cleaned up on the next reboot. No more piles of junk on the desktop (the virtual one at least. Don't ask about my physical desktop)
I relocated the default folders that are useful to another drive, I pretty much don't use the home folder at all apart from some random github pulls or some shit
Now what am I going to do with /Documents/git-projects - move it!?
Okay so next up is the Porn folder, right?!
That one was proposed but people were not able to agree on the name. Homework was the leading candidate when i last checked.
What about Project?
Nah that goes in ~/Data
No, .hidden-data
If it’s the family computer maybe lol
Fuuuuuuuck
Tbh not a bad idea but I have nightmare about windows and their 3d models folder that they put everywhere
It's pretty much the first folder I add on a fresh install, gotta keep that shit contained
Honestly I don't mind this at all.
When I start a Godot projects, putting the project into Documents makes very little sense to me.
Its amazing how bothered people are by a fucking folder 😂
A whopping 2KB of unwanted bloat.
Forcing their facist file structure on is is literally wors than windows!
/s
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I feel called out by the first sentence of the article
Cool I guess? I'm a weirdo who always puts projects in Documents/ so... maybe I'll use it more from now on
I'm more of a fan of /Projects
then syncthing that between all my boxes.
~home is great on shared systems, but my projects should be in the same place for all my local accounts on my non-shared box.
Y'all don't just do everything out of your Downloads folder?
No, Desktop/
~ is kinda hard to reach. I just put everything in root so I just have to type / once to find everything.
/s
Oh cool I'll also start using "/s" folder
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Living dangerously in agile times. I do it in /tmp and I set auto clean for every reboot.
auto clean for every reboot
Mount /tmp as tmpfs, dummy. It's literally in the name.
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Everyone complaining, and here I am not having noticed the change because I've created that directory for myself years ago :-P
Personally its for organisation
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I love this! Now to remove other unwanted folders like templates and music
On my Fedora system (KDE) I have unified all unused and pointless folders (Documents, Pictures, Public, Templates) into a single folder called Unspecified with a trash icon. You could probably do that as well.
i deleted an empty project folder yesterday... i just assumed i made it and forgor about it
This breaks my workflow. I always add a workspace folder for such things.
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.
Mine is on the desktop 🤷🏼♀️
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