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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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[–] promitheas@programming.dev 53 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Everyone complaining, and here I am not having noticed the change because I've created that directory for myself years ago :-P

Personally its for organisation

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

Not me, i have it in libraries. And thinking of moving my daily-stuff directory somewhere else than Home, and setting HOME to XDG_STATE_DIR, where that .stuff belongs.

[–] tensorpudding@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I do the same, source code lives in it.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you put in it? For me the logical place for that would be ~/Documents/projects

[–] promitheas@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

All my projects, which to be fair are mostly programming.

~/Documents/Projects doesn't make sense to me because theyre not strictly documents. In documents i have - well, documents like bill receipts, forms ive filled in, etc...

My projects are a first-order thing for me if that makes sense, so it makes sense to have them in the top-level of my home.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Right, for me "documents" is just "personal files". I used to have it called that, but then I just had and empty dir sitting there unused..

I don't like putting things in home because then files get mixed up with config and cache and crap, and it's more annoying to search

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Luckily I created mine as projects so I don't have to worry about it writing a bunch of shit into my actual projects folder, or having to fix the xdg setting to disable it.

[–] promitheas@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Ill have to check exactly what it writes there and see if i want to disable it

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Samesies.