I made SO MANY directories under home that could have just been ~/Projects that I'm annoyed with myself for not doing something so simple.

.... I'll be using the projects directory heavily going forward

This is the way. Everything I created in folder in Documents. Everything I downloaded in downloads. Home should be otherwise empty, except for all the left-over dot-folders that old software leaves lying around.

Mine is on the desktop 🤷🏼‍♀️

~ is kinda hard to reach. I just put everything in root so I just have to type / once to find everything.

/s

Documents for me, but yeah

My wife's Windows 10 desktop can fit one more icon. Just need to overlap a few others here and there.

My man!

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

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.

No, Desktop/

Same, I picked it up from some random user I was watching.

It may as well be called 'git folder' because it's almost exclusively used to clone 'hmm, neat' github repos and for my various 'to do' projects where I've gotten as far as running git init.

Same I also keep one called “scratch” that is just for random one off shit

Me too! But now I'm thinking maybe I should capitalize the folder name

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

I do the same, source code lives in it.

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.

Lmao, same

Samesies.

Yeah, I have essentially never used these folders unless a program sticks something there by default (mostly pictures).

The user does decide, XDG user directories are optional and configurable. Since they are already established, user-friendly distros / desktop environments already pre-install them.

And what speaks against just using a new directory within your home directory as your "specific place that is user owned that isn't filed with cruft and configuration files"?

Hm… I also have such a [localized] folder already. I guess there is demand 🤣

luckily I use the uppercase version so I wno't get annoyed by that...

lol same. Great minds think alike I guess

i got work

Good that we aren't talking about windows. Otherwise, I'd backup the original Projects folder quickly.

Seconded, I hate that every file is all lowercase but my home directory if filled with Downloads, Videos, Documents, etc...

Yours are camel case? That's weird. My folders are pascal case.

Windows user appeal?

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.

That one was proposed but people were not able to agree on the name. Homework was the leading candidate when i last checked.

Nah that goes in ~/Data

A whopping 2KB of unwanted bloat.

Forcing their facist file structure on is is literally wors than windows!

/s

I came here expecting people ranting over it. Let's see what they have...

Everybody has their own way of organizing things.

Ugh yeah this is a real point of annoyance for me, we have the XDG basedir spec for a reason but everything just ignores it. I'd settle for even the config part, let alone state, data dirs and the rest. Just throw it all in home...