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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a default on some distros, unfortunately, and changing it without updating the necessary env vars will break a bunch of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It would be a default on almost every distro that follows XDG specifications to have stuff like Downloads, Pictures, Videos in the $HOME folder. One of the first things I do as part of an installation is to modify ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and set a specific folder, say /data/downloads or ~/downloads, for every XDG base directory.