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What the heck is a god dang cloud? (i.ibb.co)
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[–] tibi@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And I also don't want programs to throw all their crap in the documents folder. AppData is made for that.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

~/.config :>

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

And now show hidden files and you see the plethora of applications that dump everything in your homedir instead of .config

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Its even worse when they dont make it a hidden folder (looking at you android studio)

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That annoys the fuck out of me. I want the folders I put in /home, not your shit. Put it in /.local or something and fuck off.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I believe the folder you are attempting to refer to is for all users so you probably do want to have the config in ~/.config unless you want everyone to have the same. Also /home is the directory that includes all users respective ~/ directories so use ~/ when referring to your own home directory.

Edit I can't figure out the formatting. My client is showing <sub> where ~ should be.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

yup...

.hidden file became my best friend - and a little context menu script for dolphin to easily add a file / folder to that .hidden is a thing i use way too often tbh

[–] MonkeMischief 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hint for KDE folks: Ctrl + h toggles hidden visibility. Makes navigating lots easier. :D

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same in thunar (the xfce file manager)

[–] MonkeMischief 2 points 5 months ago

Awesome! Thunar is legit. 😁

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 5 months ago

No matter the environment, it is important to dump shit wherever so the user does not get complacent.

[–] Hammerheart@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

That really pisses me off.

[–] MonkeMischief 8 points 5 months ago

SO MUCH. Now my standard procedure is to just make a "_My_Documents" folder within Documents, so I can know where the files are that I put there myself.

(Leading underscore pops it to the top of the list alphabetically)

I remember some Windows versions had a Games folder for all that, saved games, etc...but it seems very few games actually decided to use it lol.