It’s changeable so I don’t really mind but I hate the XDG default data dirs used by most OSs. Uppercase feels out of place, organizing things based on mine type (ex. “Video”) feels wrong, and wtf is a “Desktop”.
same, I just delete all these dirs and use ~/downloads for everything. If I need a file for more than a couple of hours, it goes somewhere it makes sense, not to a generic dumpster like “Documents”.
Been downloading most things to /tmp for years and it was a great decision.
By the time you’ve extracted, built a binary, picked out what you wanted and put it somewhere sensible, or just realized it won’t do what you need, all that’s left over is cruft that gets wiped on the next boot.
XDG Base Directory Specification is not new. come on!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded 😞
What does this mean though? Sure it’s not new, but does it make it less of a mess?
The XDG Base Directory Specification is a set of guidelines to tell application developers where they should store their application’s config files, cache, etc.
There are many applications that don’t follow the guidelines and put their files in a hidden folder directly in your home directory, which is what the guidelines are trying to combat.
~/.config superiority
so ya just put so the stuff in there? is there a reason for that specific directory (I’m kinda a noob)
It’s used to store configuration files for various applications so they don’t clutter up your home directory. For example, you can put your Emacs config files in ~/.config/emacs instead of ~/.emacs.d. Not every program supports it though.
Every project should at least move the default config location to the ./config folder. Even better if they create their own subdirectory in there.
Fine, it’s 23:46. You got me to check my PC. Let’s have a look.
ls -A ~/
2FAlist.txt
Applications
aurpkt
.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.cache
.cddb
.cert
Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.1
.cmake
.config
.cups
Desktop
.dir_colors
Documents
.dosbox
Downloads
dump1090
.dvdcss
.elinks
.face
.face.icon
.fltk
.fonts.conf
.gnupg
.gnuradio
.gphoto
.grc_gnuradio
.gr_fftw_wisdom
.gr_fftw_wisdom.lock
gr-gsm
.gtkrc-2.0
.hplip
.icons
iqtosharp
.java
.kal_fftw_plan
.kde4
.lesshst
.local
.minetest
missaurpkg.png
.mozilla
Music
.openjfx
options.txt
.packettracer
packettracer
Pictures
.pki
pkttheme
Public
.putty
.python_history
qsstv
.qt-dab.ini
.qt-dab-presets.xml
.qt-dab-schedule.ini
.qt-scanList.xml
.rnd
rtl_wmbus
sdr-trunk
SDRTrunk
sdr-trunk-linux-x86_64-v0.5.0-beta6
sdr-trunk-linux-x86_64-v0.5.3
snapcore.png
speedtest-1.2.0
.ssh
.ssr
.steam
.steampath
.steampid
Templates
tmp
Videos
.viminfo
VirtualBox VMs
.wget-hsts
.wine
wmbusmeters
.wxlistlog
.wxtoimg
wxtoimg
.wxtoimglic
.wxtoimgrc
.Xauthority
.Xclients
.xinitrc
.zcompdump
zesarux
.zesaruxrc
.zhistory
.zshrc
Pretty clean, I’d say. At least on this install.
Not strictly. Plenty of non-video content. Anything on nhentai for example. Or literotica. Or old.reddit.com/r/nsfwcyoa or old.reddit.com/r/breedingcaptions . Or any games, like Beasts in the Sun
I swear I wasn’t this into porn until covid hit, then I spent too much time at home.
.config
.config.BAK
.config.BAK2
.config.OLD
.config.bspwm
.config.CWM
.config.JACKAUDIO
.config.LFS1
etc etc
