Post #2945844

2026-05-29 11:37 UTC

@green@mk.absturztau.be historically, on windows, i've used ~/Desktop/, then it got too cluttered so put my stuff and things inside of ~/Desktop/stuff and things/. eventually, i realized that was silly and essentially migrated to ~/Documents/ and kept specifically coding stuff (repos) neatly organized in ~/Documents/Code/ (essentially, this was my XDG_PROJECTS_DIR, although i didn't use XDG basedirs) then, i switched to Linux, and never got as organized. i think the main reason i now keep everything in just ~/ is the fact that i never bothered to set up a graphical file manager. so like, the visual clutter (e.g. why i stopped putting everything on ~/Desktop/) doesn't really matter. i simply do not have to look at it. so instead, i just remember the paths of the things i care about. the added components actually make this worse on the terminal, because names get longer. i think my previous approach was more optimized for GUI file management.

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@green@mk.absturztau.be 2026-05-29 11:54

@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud my system is very convoluted, and i'm thinking about simplifying it... soooo, first of all, i have a bunch of year folders in ~/ (technically all still in /mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive/). starting from ~/dz2018/ to ~/dz2025/. they contain study related things, from each pair of semesters. there is ~/Programs/ for cloned repositories, ~/Games/ for game installs, ~/Downloads/ for downloads i haven't moved yet. i would theoretically lose nothing from deleting those. they can all be redownloaded. there is also ~/dz20xx/repos for my repositories on git.gay (all very tiny). this is the only folder in ~/dz20xx/ ._. there is also ~/Desktop/memes which is a big git repo with personal non-code stuff, like my diary, anime screenshots, and sometimes actual memes. Desktop only contains 2 more folders: ~/Desktop/diffpatch (for stuff that's important, but don't belong anywhere) and ~/Desktop/OrphanedProjects which is one big repo for programming projects that didn't get their own folders years ago. there is also /mnt/d/ which was originally the home for things to big to store on the main drive, and now it's kind of a mess.

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