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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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Not the commenter you replied to, but I change my XDG directory names to be lowercase and start with different letters. For example, Desktop, becomes "drop" (as in pick it up and put it somewhere else) and Downloads is a subdirectory dl. A program that would otherwise save to "Downloads" now saves to "~/drop/dl". When I setup my machines I run a script including the line
xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop"to update the XDG directory and I delete "Desketop". So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here's the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.