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”.
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.
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
I think that’s what normal people have been doing for decades.
Now make all of default XDG directories lowercase. Nothing else is capitalized in the file system - why do these directories get an exception?
Yessssss
Idk, XDG is weird.
“Music”, “Documents”, “Downloads”, “Public” and “Templates” are in Ukrainian;
“Public” and “Downloads” are duplicated in English;
“Desktop” is just English;
“Images” is in Russian for me for some reason.No Projects despite me updating recently, I guess it just gave up.
That sounds like a translation deficiency. You should contribute a fix.
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
Lmao, same
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.
Are you kidding?
Those files all go in documents. Jesus, why are we doing it this way?
You store git repo in your documents?!
Now what am I going to do with /Documents/git-projects - move it!?
Just create a link
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
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)
That’s a good idea until you download a 10GB file and you wonder why you’re out of RAM :P
I use /tmp as a temp folder for yt-dlp (it is faster than an HDD when adding metadata and subs to the video), and I’ve ran out of RAM before by downloading a video too big… Silly me, my laptop only has 8GB.
True, but only if you use ramfs for tmp, which not all distros do
If you don’t, then it’s not going to be cleaned up on reboot.
Fuuuuuuuck
Tbh not a bad idea but I have nightmare about windows and their 3d models folder that they put everywhere
