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”.
Everyone complaining, and here I am not having noticed the change because I’ve created that directory for myself years ago :-P
Personally its for organisation
I do the same, source code lives in it.
What do you put in it? For me the logical place for that would be
~/Documents/projectsAll my projects, which to be fair are mostly programming.
~/Documents/Projects doesn’t make sense to me because theyre not strictly documents. In documents i have - well, documents like bill receipts, forms ive filled in, etc…
My projects are a first-order thing for me if that makes sense, so it makes sense to have them in the top-level of my home.
Right, for me “documents” is just “personal files”. I used to have it called that, but then I just had and empty dir sitting there unused…
I don’t like putting things in home because then files get mixed up with config and cache and crap, and it’s more annoying to search
Luckily I created mine as
projectsso I don’t have to worry about it writing a bunch of shit into my actual projects folder, or having to fix the xdg setting to disable it.Ill have to check exactly what it writes there and see if i want to disable it
Lmao, same
Samesies.