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”.
Yeah, I have essentially never used these folders unless a program sticks something there by default (mostly pictures).
I just save everything to ~/Desktop anyway.
A thing I started doing years ago, to combat trashing to ~/Desktop or ~/Downloads:
Set /tmp as your default download directory.
At least for me, almost everything I download is just ephemeral and would collect dust
Putting it there causes it to be cleaned up on the next reboot. No more piles of junk on the desktop (the virtual one at least. Don’t ask about my physical desktop)
That’s a good idea until you download a 10GB file and you wonder why you’re out of RAM :P
I use /tmp as a temp folder for yt-dlp (it is faster than an HDD when adding metadata and subs to the video), and I’ve ran out of RAM before by downloading a video too big… Silly me, my laptop only has 8GB.
True, but only if you use ramfs for tmp, which not all distros do
I relocated the default folders that are useful to another drive, I pretty much don’t use the home folder at all apart from some random github pulls or some shit