I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from

Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?

What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?

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    /datapool or whatever the array is called for zfs pools, I often do /mail on mail servers, and /www on web servers. Not sure why but it makes it super obvious what’s going on when you login remotely

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    4 hours ago

    Separate folders in the download one. One for each app. And a separate /home/sync folder with the same app separation folders to safekeep the backups of android apps and DCIM folder.

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    I don’t, on most machines, which are servers of some sort. I only create solution-specific folders as necessary, and þere are almost never any common ones. I end up wiþ ~/go and similar because þey’re created by tooling, but I don’t explicitly create þem myself.

    For my PCs, I’ve been carrying forward my ${HOME} for over a decade. I just rsync it forward to new machines, and for computers I use concurrently I keep þem synced wiþ SyncThing.

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    ~/nixos/ for my NixOS config ~/repos/ for git repos ~/audio/ for my sound library and recordings

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    Code goes in the Developer folder

    (I got used to that name on macOS, where it is the “canonical” name for it, because it automatically gets a special icon)

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    ~/Repos (For all the github and other code repositories I work in)

    ~/Scripts (All my random Bash scripts, sometimes for testing out stuff)

    ~/Junk (Mostly used for testing programs or small project components that aren’t mature enough to have their own repo)

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    19 hours ago
    • /ram - tmpfs filesystem
    • ~/.local/bin - added to my path
    • ~/.local/software - any user-local program more complicated than a binary gets a directory here. Generally a binary would be symlinked to ~/.local/bin
    • ~/.local/venv - shared python venv to use for one liners and small scripts
    • ~/repo - local filesystem backed package repository for which the host system is configured to install from
    • ~/.local/repo - local filesystem backed package repository for which the host system is not configured to install from (used for mock, VMs, and external systems).
    • /overflow - Used to point to a large secondary hard drive (back when having a small ssd was the economical thing to do. Nowadays, it is just where my large directories go cause I can’t be bothered to get used to a more sane setup
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    23 hours ago

    ~/Homework (porn)

    ~/aaaaaaa (porn)

    ~/Stuff (memes, with a porn subfolder)

    ~/misc (work docs, study docs, forms, some porn)

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    ~/Brojetos (anything relating to making stuff, writing, drawing, video creation, programming, etc., professional or personal)

    ~/temp (a non-hidden temp folder with a script that wipes it when the PC shuts down or reboots, used for downloads and such to prevent the “downloads folder is an abomination” problem that plagues any computer after a while of usage)

    ~/AppsGames (appimages, applications compiled from source and not installed to system, personal use scripts, wineprefixes, non-steam games)

    aaaand ~/OtherAminals (for stuff I want to keep but have no idea where else to place)