I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from

Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?

What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?

  • mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    My home folders on any OS have a Development folder (which conveniently sits right next to Documents and Downloads) and in that folder, I’ve also got subfolders per programming language that have the respective projects in them.

    The other folder I usually have is SyncThing with whatever synced folders are relevant for that machine.

    • astronaut_sloth@mander.xyzEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Yep, I also have a directory for my programming projects on each of my machines, but mine is Programming. On my main desktop, I also have an ISOs folder to hold my OS ISOs for VMs and old CD-ROM game ISOs.

  • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Conventions I have are:

    • Downloads folder is ephemeral, don’t store/keep things in there I might want
    • ~/scripts - personal scripts and one offs
    • ~/Documents/projects/[subdir] - any tech project I may be working on, gets homed here
    • /tmp - always mount it noexec

    I also start off allocating ~ 50GB to / (root) volumegroup. Wine and proton have been taking up nearly the full space though, may need to expand it on my desktop soon.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I always make a ~/.local/{bin,opt,share} if the distro lacks it. and a ~/bot that I use for my development stuff

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I always make a bin folder in my home for putting my custom scripts and downloaded binaries. At least on fedora, ~/bin is already in the path, so I don’t have to make any additional configuration to make stuff in there become commands for my cli

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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    14 days ago

    I usually create ~/git/githubgitlab|codeberg|AUR|etc where I clone the git stuff I need.

    The rest is usually handled by my nextcloud that creates the ~/Nextcloud folder.

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    I have /home/username/username/ and I sym link important dirs (like Downloads) to my new home. I strongly dislike all the dot files and dirs cluttering up my home dir.

    • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Are you aware of the ‘xdg-user-dirs-update’ command that allows you to edit the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs config file?

        • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Reading back, my comment sounds snarky, but I was genuinely trying to be helpful.

          Like what pemptago was describing, instead of symlinking your directories to /home/username/username, you could simply update that file and achieve the same effect, but in a more “official” way that may prove more robust.

        • Grey Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          It basically allows you to define which paths are used for the Downloads, Documents, Videos, etc… types of directories.

        • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Not the commenter you replied to, but I change my XDG directory names to be lowercase and start with different letters. For example, Desktop, becomes “drop” (as in pick it up and put it somewhere else) and Downloads is a subdirectory dl. A program that would otherwise save to “Downloads” now saves to “~/drop/dl”. When I setup my machines I run a script including the line xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop" to update the XDG directory and I delete “Desketop”. So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here’s the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.

          • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            13 days ago

            I don’t use Arch, but I am eternally grateful for their excellent documentation.

            I am also grateful to you for your comment, because this is a good idea

  • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I do a similar thing for code stuffs, generally always make a ~/Git and ~/Godot so I always have a spot for things.

    I also delete most of the auto-created ones if I’m using a DE that does that, because I have my own organization going on with various external/network drives. Only one I have always kept is ~/Downloads.

      • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking about. Do you mean the directory names?

        In unix, ~ expands to the user’s home directory path and / just separates each level in the path.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          Very weird. For some reason Boost displays those like the strings I wrote. Looking at this in the web client now, I see ~. Which btw I’m familiar with :) Thanks for the response!

          • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
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            14 days ago

            Ohhh, very odd. I’ve been noticing a lot of inconsistencies between Lemmy and PieFed like this, and now an app is something else entirely. Seems the fediverse is not unified on markdown support!

            Apologies if I came off as condescending, not my intention.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    ~/.drafts, in which my text editor taskbar shortcut script creates files YYMMDD_text_N. I passionately believe in eliminating the chore of manually naming my spur-of-the-moment notes and text files.

    ~/progs or ~/bin where loose programs not provided by my package manager reside.

    If there’s a secondary drive, /media/disk1 as the mount point in fstab.

    • thejml@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      I want to follow this, and I sorta do… but ADHD makes the P,A and other A basically the same category. And the R is just “stuff I put down to look at but haven’t yet”.

      • www-gem@lemmy.ml
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        15 days ago

        Drawing the line between each category indeed takes some time. Our brain is not use to this approach anymore. Perseverance is key, but it’s kind of a commitment.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Hardware folder (synced via sync thing). All hardware PDFs, notes images etc get subfolders by manufacturer. It is helpful for keeping track of use manuals, firmware or config settings for each piece of hardware.

    • hushable@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I have a ~/Sync folder with a symlink to all my Syncthing shares, which I have quite a lot of. Helps me find them quickly and reminds me that everything in there us pulled or pushed somewhere else.

  • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
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    14 days ago

    I rsync my home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.

    ~/Books, with subfolders by topic.

    ~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.

    ~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.