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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago
[-] Floey@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

It's changeable so I don't really mind but I hate the XDG default data dirs used by most OSs. Uppercase feels out of place, organizing things based on mine type (ex. "Video") feels wrong, and wtf is a "Desktop".

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

same, I just delete all these dirs and use ~/downloads for everything. If I need a file for more than a couple of hours, it goes somewhere it makes sense, not to a generic dumpster like "Documents".

[-] evranch@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

Been downloading most things to /tmp for years and it was a great decision.

By the time you've extracted, built a binary, picked out what you wanted and put it somewhere sensible, or just realized it won't do what you need, all that's left over is cruft that gets wiped on the next boot.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Me too. Many distros mount /tmp on ram, so it even helps process things faster, and maybe saves a few writes from ssds. Back when I used an hdd, the diference was brutal.

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