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What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by underscores@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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