I absolutely despise the following directories: Documents, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, Videos. Why? Because applications randomly dump stuff into these directories and fill them with junk files. I don’t want any application putting anything into directories I actually use, unless I explicitly tell them to. It is not possible to keep your files organized if applications randomly dump trash files into them.
These places are a cesspool of junk in every system, it’s incredible. MacOS has this kind of shit too, just like Windows, with apps dumping crap there without a care.
I absolutely despise the following directories: Documents, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, Videos. Why? Because applications randomly dump stuff into these directories and fill them with junk files. I don’t want any application putting anything into directories I actually use, unless I explicitly tell them to. It is not possible to keep your files organized if applications randomly dump trash files into them.
Change them: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
The apps dumping files into foldes like Documents usually don’t care about the XDG_user_directories spec, iirc.
I just keep my stuff far away from
$HOME
and not bother about the junk. Not even a subdirectory under$HOME
.Same goes for ’ My documents’ on windows.
This is why I’ve made a “Filing Cabinet” directory. My stuff goes in there nice and organized, while I ignore the rest.
These places are a cesspool of junk in every system, it’s incredible. MacOS has this kind of shit too, just like Windows, with apps dumping crap there without a care.