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 ?

  • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I do a similar thing for code stuffs, generally always make a ~/Git and ~/Godot so I always have a spot for things.

    I also delete most of the auto-created ones if I’m using a DE that does that, because I have my own organization going on with various external/network drives. Only one I have always kept is ~/Downloads.

      • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking about. Do you mean the directory names?

        In unix, ~ expands to the user’s home directory path and / just separates each level in the path.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Very weird. For some reason Boost displays those like the strings I wrote. Looking at this in the web client now, I see ~. Which btw I’m familiar with :) Thanks for the response!

          • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Ohhh, very odd. I’ve been noticing a lot of inconsistencies between Lemmy and PieFed like this, and now an app is something else entirely. Seems the fediverse is not unified on markdown support!

            Apologies if I came off as condescending, not my intention.