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 ?
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~/proj
~/note
~/sync
~/docs (/book etc)
~/imgs ~/util ~/test ~/tempI just at ~/projects it contains a boat load of stuff including my Neovim and bash stuff.
Guys, use GNU Stow + git for your configs shit’s good.
I just live out of my downloads folder until its time to back up the important stuff to the server and reinstall/ distrohop.
I usually make src, junk, and applications for appimages and unpackaged binaries
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.Are you aware of the ‘xdg-user-dirs-update’ command that allows you to edit the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs config file?
Huh, no, I had no idea that was there. Thank you.
Can you expand on this ?
It basically allows you to define which paths are used for the Downloads, Documents, Videos, etc… types of directories.
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.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
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.
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.
I have a
~/Syncfolder 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.Shouldn’t that be a subdirectory under the documents folder ?
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
I do a similar thing for code stuffs, generally always make a
~/Gitand~/Godotso 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.Okay what is this
<sub>convention everyone is using and why is it sometimes</sub>?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.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!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.
Just so you can see what I saw:
~/3D Objects
~/.drafts, in which my text editor taskbar shortcut script creates filesYYMMDD_text_N. I passionately believe in eliminating the chore of manually naming my spur-of-the-moment notes and text files.~/progsor~/binwhere loose programs not provided by my package manager reside.If there’s a secondary drive,
/media/disk1as the mount point infstab.I generally follow the same pattern as you.
~/Codewith programming language based sub folders. But there’s also a~/Code/Workand~/Code/Orgswhich is for code that has a certain purpose. Generally the by-language subfolders are for projects I cloned, not authored. There is a fair amount of symlinking also.Also
/datafor long term storage drives. Directories under~/Audioand~/Videowill usually symlink to there.Your organization will vary with your usage. If you’re looking for something suitable for work, I would highly recommend the PARA approach. https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
I’ve tweaked it to my needs. Combined with fzf, it makes my workflow so smooth and efficient. https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_stay_organized/
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”.
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.
Especially for systems remotely managed by ssh:
~/Desktop/stuff/mystuff/junk/funny/
~/Git for all git clones
For source code or any project - a folder Projects (on my personal setups) or Documents/Projects/PersonalRepo (more customer specific folders under the Projects sub-folder)
- Anything under ~/Projects that isn’t just a throwaway will be a git repo.
- Anything under ~/Documents/Project/*Repo will be a git repo.
