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.
Me too. Many distros mount /tmp on ram, so it even helps process things faster, and maybe saves a few writes from ssds. Back when I used an hdd, the diference was brutal.
XDG Base Directory Specification is not new. come on!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded 😞
~/.configsuperiorityI would fucking love it if I could put all my configs there, but unfortunately every other CLI tool seems to feel it needs a spot in the home dir instead…
so ya just put so the stuff in there? is there a reason for that specific directory (I’m kinda a noob)
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 .zshrcPretty clean, I’d say. At least on this install.
Lies. I see no .porn folder!
we only do homework here
/usr/local/share/porn
Would that not be under
~/Videos?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 etcFor when I can be bothered to go through and clean it up a bit, I find xdg-ninja extremely useful
I never share screenshots, my desktop is boring… practical, nothing really fancy.
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I just use the defaults lol.
I “spice it up” to look more or less like I want it to and that’s it 🤷 😂.
It’s getting better. I recently removed a bunch of AIX and Solaris specific dotfiles/directories that haven’t been of use for years.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory
Do that for your tools in
/etc/profile.d/01-xdg, make it executable, restart, done. Just make sure theXDG_*variables are on top.Lots of tools ignore xdg, and issues asking to add support get bogged down in backwards compatibility problems. The best they achieve is to introduce yet another env variable to control where the config goes. It’s really annoying.
I have a bunch of
TOOLX_CONFIG="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/toolx"stuff in my bashrc.Yes? Most workarounds are in the link. If not, please add them.
But sure, some have none.
