Now what am I going to do with /Documents/git-projects - move it!?
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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It's pretty much the first folder I add on a fresh install, gotta keep that shit contained
Honestly I don't mind this at all.
When I start a Godot projects, putting the project into Documents makes very little sense to me.
But why are the names ~~camel~~ Pascal cased? It's a little bit more annoying to type.
Because any normal person would want it upper cased. Most people never type these folder names.
Yes, Linux should appeal to the masses, otherwise we will never get rid of Windows. No, this doesn't apply to anyone on Lemmy cause nobody on Lemmy right now truly qualify as "normal person", statistically speaking.
i feel normal but nobody knows that i am wearing Batman socks.
... until now.
Yours are camel case? That's weird. My folders are pascal case.
Indeed, fixed.
Seconded, I hate that every file is all lowercase but my home directory if filled with Downloads, Videos, Documents, etc...
You can customize the names with a ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. That will work on XDG-compliant programs. instructions
Fuuuuuuuck
Tbh not a bad idea but I have nightmare about windows and their 3d models folder that they put everywhere
Those files all go in documents. Jesus, why are we doing it this way?
No documents are for documents.
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I feel called out by the first sentence of the article
Cool I guess? I'm a weirdo who always puts projects in Documents/ so... maybe I'll use it more from now on
I never even thought to check. Was Games not a default folder?
I always change the defaults to another place and to have another naming. Just camel casing those folders is already stupidly annoying. I guess one more silly one into another folder out of view.
I already do the following:
- media with images, music and videos inside
- changes to small case for desktop and download
- change documents to docs
- create another folder called shares which I moved the public folder inside.
- hide the templates folder that nobody knows what is it for, so it becomes .templates
- no idea what the projects is supposed to be about, maybe I can map it to the already existing dev folder...
hide the templates folder that nobody knows what is it for, so it becomes .templates
I think the templates folder is for the "New File" items, I forget how it works but you can make custom new files similar to new Text File, Empty File, etc