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Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory (itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 month 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 149 points 1 month ago

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

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 74 points 1 month 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 34 points 1 month ago

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

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 19 points 1 month ago

Documents for me, but yeah

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

My man!

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

auto clean for every reboot

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

[-] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, Desktop/

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