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I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from

Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?

What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?

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[-] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago

My homedir is an infernal hellhole of junk accumulated over the past 15 years and I wouldn't have it any other way

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

Mine used to be the same but the last OS reinstall I reset everything, moved my files onto an external drive, and only copied them over on a needs basis. I'd been keeping the same home dir since I was like 4 or however old I was when I started using a computer. So needless to say there was a lot there that made me cringe to see every time I tried to navigate my files.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago

Mine used to be like that, but now my home folder is rehabilitated by turning ~/Documents into a hellhole of accumulated junk instead.

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I'd love to keep it clean but too many devs think $HOME is up for grabs, as long as they prepend their directory names with a dot (they think I'll never notice, but I notice, and I keep a list...)

[-] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dafuq are you doing in other people's homes?

Sysadmins are all creeps, confirmed

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Breaking pots. Don't mind me.

EDIT: holdup, who are you calling a sysadmin? I administer my system, sure, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go, thank you.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Breaking pots.

TriangleSpecialist

Are those the Triforce triangles perhaps?

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It might be?...

Oops, I meant to say: "hayaaa"

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

🛡️🗡️

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

There are 15 year olds using Lemmy??

/s (my documents folder is the same, but older ... much a lot too many very older :|)

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