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| ▲ | jl6 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Abandon hope. I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /. |
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| ▲ | SAI_Peregrinus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "/home/${USER}" for whatever junk programs are going to stick there, "/home/${USER}/home" for my "real" home directory. | |
| ▲ | oftenwrong 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I have been doing this for decades. My files are in a sub-directory of $HOME. It also makes it very obvious when a piece of software does not treat your $HOME with respect. |
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| ▲ | trollbridge 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is). |
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| ▲ | ComputerGuru 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag. |
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| ▲ | Sardtok 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years. | | |
| ▲ | SAI_Peregrinus an hour ago | parent [-] | | They still have that, it's just `My Documents\My Games` now. And Visual Studio makes a folder in My Documents for every annual release. And… |
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| ▲ | Joker_vD 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That ship has sailed 30 years ago. |
