A new directory has appeared on Linux distros.

[d1@autistics.life]

@tobozo @itsfoss the "Projects" folder in the root folder - which is blessed by the FHS - is arguably /opt

[thefeditest@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss "this folder made this distro 20% cooler"

[thefeditest@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss people would say

[hackbyte@joinfriendica.de]

@itsfoss u never heard of ~/opt? ~/src? or ~/bin?

Sad that ~/pub is no longer a thing nowadays.

[hackbyte@joinfriendica.de]

@jandi @autumn Uhm, dunno if this is a legitimate question or not...

But in any case, distribution changes (should!) _never_ overwrite _anything_ in users homedirs.

So if you already have a ~/Projects ... it will just be used as is.

[hackbyte@joinfriendica.de]

@jandi @autumn Uhm, dunno if this is a legitimate question or not...

But in any case, distribution changes (should!) _never_ overwrite _anything_ in users homedirs.

So if you already have a ~/Projects ... it will just be used as is.

[jandi@mastodon.social]

@hackbyte @autumn That's what I would expect, it was just a question that crossed my mind on reading, just that (what do you mean by "legitimate question"?).

[hackbyte@joinfriendica.de]

@jandi @autumn Uhm.... i had no context about your knowledge .. and with so many ppl nowadays adopting linux for the first time .. well, i was just unsure if one just based his experience - and so the question - only on microslop windows knowledge... mh

As a linux user (gentooisti) since decades .... my very first (internal) reaction truly was "tf, why should it overwrite stuff in ~/?"

[jandi@mastodon.social]

@hackbyte @autumn lol i should be offended!

But you know, bugs are weird like that... maybe permissions, maybe dbus or anything... Just riffing on my first thought, I'm sure it will be mostly trouble-free.

[hackbyte@joinfriendica.de]

@jandi @autumn That's why i wrote (should!) _never_ ..... we all know the truth.

Seriously, there was no offence intendet at all. I don't always research each and any fediverse user before commenting or answering questions.

.oO( Maybe i (should!))

[jandi@mastodon.social]

@hackbyte @autumn Not before answering in general, but before dropping veiled accusations it is preferable, yeah.

No hard feelings, see you around.

[zenbeater@beige.party]

@itsfoss

Ha, I have a "Projects" folder for almost a decade already!

[nonnom@organica.social]

@itsfoss Legal que eu sempre criei uma pasta Projetos nesse mesmo lugar ~

[draeath@infosec.exchange]

@itsfoss ugh please, no. I hate all these stub directories. I'll do it myself!

[aanee@mastodon.online]

@itsfoss as long as you can rename it or remove it in ~/.config/user_directories or what its name as usual I don't care.

[white_gecko@chaos.social]

@openrisk @itsfoss
I use `Projects/<spaces>/<project_folder>`

`<spaces>` is something like e.g. a github-org under which I group the projects, is this what you X and Y refer to?

`<project_folder>` is a git working directory.

(For some exceptions, which I want to clean up one day, there is another level.)

Note: Actually my `Projects` is called `Workspaces` and it still resides at `~/Documents/Workspaces/`.

I wish you a good night

[white_gecko@chaos.social]

@itsfoss my `Projects` directory is actually called `Workspaces`.
But what would be about an additional `Playground` next to it? It should be this kind of temporary place as `Downloads`.

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@white_gecko @itsfoss yes many of my X,Y, Z's are quite close to your "spaces", e.g., github or gitlab hosted, public / private etc. temporary trials, old stuff to sort out in a subsequent reincarnation etc.

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

@white_gecko that would be nice I guess...