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The solution is simple, stop messing your home and put personal data in /home/you/personal/ source code in /home/you/src/ The home is not a place supposed t
by slbtty 4y ago
The solution is simple, stop messing your home and put personal data in
/home/you/personal/
source code in
/home/you/src/
The home is not a place supposed to store random "regular files"
- int_19h 4y agoOn the contrary, that's exactly what it's supposed to be.
- systemvoltage 4y agoYeah but no putting the genie back in the bottle. So the next best is to find another place as your home as the OP explains. That's what I do.
- slbtty 4y agoThe $HOME in unix is a user data storage location A lot of data is managed by software and by convection there is a dot before them Unmanaged/Arbitrary data like random pictures or notes are personal and should end up in $HOME/personal git repos are special managed data, thus they all end up in $HOME/sources $HOME is supposed to let software to create their data folder and optimally without the dot The data here includes config (which is read & write like data file) $HOME/.config or XDG spec is monkey patch that do the wrong thing. GUI file manager should open $HOME/personal as initial location Terminal should open $HOME to let user access software's data file with shorter path (aka without .config/ ) You don't know if i am mad or being brilliant or simply brain dead, but i am making perfect scene.
- wruza 4y agoYes, for users who weren’t scared of .ssh and even edited its contents from time to time. Because these were just their files, not “junk from apps and configs that hurt my sense of beauty”. Those who want to live in a clean folder - mkdir it.
- pacifika 4y agoProbably not in the roots home directory? ~/me/ feels good.