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Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory (itsfoss.com)
submitted 2 weeks 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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[-] WagnasT@piefed.world 160 points 2 weeks ago

Y'all don't just do everything out of your Downloads folder?

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 76 points 2 weeks ago

~ is kinda hard to reach. I just put everything in root so I just have to type / once to find everything.

/s

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool I'll also start using "/s" folder

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 27 points 2 weeks ago

Everything is just in /. I patched directory support out of ext4.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 20 points 2 weeks ago

Documents for me, but yeah

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago

My wife's Windows 10 desktop can fit one more icon. Just need to overlap a few others here and there.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps your wife needs something like this?

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Living dangerously in agile times. I do it in /tmp and I set auto clean for every reboot.

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

auto clean for every reboot

Mount /tmp as tmpfs, dummy. It's literally in the name.

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

My man!

[-] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I thought I was the only one, it's just so easy to use it as your base working folder. Things get organized out as whatever it is moves forward to some arbitrary point.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, Desktop/

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