If you are using a rolling release distro like Arch, you might have noticed that your home directory now has a new member, a new folder called “Projects”.
For as long as I remember, Linux has always had a set of default folders under the home directory. Usually they are Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos and Downloads. Templates, Desktop and Public folders are also there.
Now we have a new addition in the form of “Projects”.
I like this idea. I’ve been doing pretty much the same thing for a while now, though it’s been a subdirectory of Documents.
I made SO MANY directories under home that could have just been ~/Projects that I’m annoyed with myself for not doing something so simple.
… I’ll be using the projects directory heavily going forward
I think that’s what normal people have been doing for decades.
As someone who has used ~/Projects for years and has syncing and other setup around it I am (very slightly) terrified this change could somehow fuck with me.
Please let this just be a mkdir call that will fail.
I’m on Artix Linux and it did automatically create it after an update.
It likely just runs xdg-user-dirs-update which, in my experience, doesn’t delete anything if the folder is already there (the command just changed the folder icon in the file manager when I used to run it on a WM).
I also use a Projects folder. It looks like it probably won’t break anything. Apps might start putting stuff there by default, hopefully in sensible subdirectories. There’s a note in the article that you can create
~/.config/user-dirs.dirsto specify where you want files to go.Nope. Only makes for new installs, and only uses it as a save spot default if the application asks for it. Should be no change at all.
New installs, or new users? I’d assume the latter?
When I read it originally (a bit back, maybe a week or two ago) it was new installs that was noted, though new users would make sense.
I guess I’ll find out soon enough on a test box.
it’s excessive for me. I’ll continue putting my projects with my documents.
This is the way. Everything I created in folder in Documents. Everything I downloaded in downloads. Home should be otherwise empty, except for all the left-over dot-folders that old software leaves lying around.
Mine is on the desktop 🤷🏼♀️