The point is to have a clean home directory.

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 /.

	▲	SAI_Peregrinus an hour 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.