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Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory (itsfoss.com)
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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 156 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

~ 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 32 points 1 day ago

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

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago

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

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, Desktop/

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

auto clean for every reboot

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

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 19 points 2 days ago

Documents for me, but yeah

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago

Perhaps your wife needs something like this?

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day 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.