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minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·1 month agoIt’s Linux. You’re supposed to name your user data folders ~/doc ~/dsk ~/dwn ~/mus ~/pic ~/vid or even better, just use /tmp as your download folder.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoThis is the best and funniest comment I’ve read all week.
minus-squareMimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoYou can also setup custom dirs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories All of mine (except Desktop) point to “$HOME/downloads”
minus-squaretimbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIm halfway to grey beard at this point but didn’t know this. Thanks.
minus-squareBookmeat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoThat’s because modern desktops (looking at you, Gnome) have decided that discoverability isn’t worth their time. They want empty, pretty interfaces with minimal functionality.
minus-squaretimbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoI use gnome and love it so not sure how that at all even relates here. It’s completely irrelevant to your de.
minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYou’ve downloaded half your life from the internet?
minus-squareActers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoMy whole drive is half downloads folder and half OS
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoYou don’t keep stuff in /dev/null?
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agodl, sh, src, var, old, pic, app, books that’s mine. No bin yet - it’s a new installation with a home_old.tar.zst file for the old. EDIT: Of course I do have a Downloads directory, I’ve just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.
It’s Linux. You’re supposed to name your user data folders
~/doc
~/dsk
~/dwn
~/mus
~/pic
~/vid
or even better, just use /tmp as your download folder.
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This is the best and funniest comment I’ve read all week.
You can also setup custom dirs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
All of mine (except Desktop) point to “$HOME/downloads”
Im halfway to grey beard at this point but didn’t know this. Thanks.
That’s because modern desktops (looking at you, Gnome) have decided that discoverability isn’t worth their time. They want empty, pretty interfaces with minimal functionality.
I use gnome and love it so not sure how that at all even relates here.
It’s completely irrelevant to your de.
You’ve downloaded half your life from the internet?
My whole drive is half downloads folder and half OS
You don’t keep stuff in /dev/null?
dl,sh,src,var,old,pic,app,booksthat’s mine. No
binyet - it’s a new installation with ahome_old.tar.zstfile for the old.EDIT: Of course I do have a
Downloadsdirectory, I’ve just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.