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Microsoft and application developers treat the Documents folder like a total dumping ground for whatever random nonsense they can dream up. No wonder people look elsewhere. Need to store user files? Documents. A database? Documents. Giant cache files? Documents. Config? Documents. Executables? Fuck it put those in Documents too.

Why would I ever store my real documents in a folder so littered with shit that I can never find anything? It's not like the search actually works.

Also as a Linux user myself and to head off any smugness, developers do the same thing with the home directory so users end up inventing weird ways to stay organized.

Saving to desktop is insane behaviour and the OP just told on herself.

I am the opposite and I absolutely hate it when I have to work on someone's laptop with cluttered desktop and folders. Mine only has a taskbar at bottom and clock widget at bottom right corner. All temporary files goes to downloads or to organised directories. What's the point of having a nice wallpaper if you can't enjoy it.

Everything downloads to the desktop, that way it's in my face so I have to deal with it.

The clutter on the desktop annoys me into cleaning it up, but I'll ignore a downloads folder once I've grabbed whatever I just downloaded.

I use downloads instead, it mainly functions as a temporary folder where anything unimportant can live and once it gets a scroll bar it all gets deleted. For the very rare things that are important I could then move them after.

I would expect nothing less from a filthy outlook user

The cursed Linux alternative of this is usually putting things directly in the home folder – I used to do this until I got better. Desktop is simple to keep clean when you don't have one in your "desktop environment" by default.

Some people who've used MacOs before OSX dump everything to the root filesystem out of habit. It works just as poorly as a file management strategy as one might expect, albeit better than putting everything on the desktop. Not sure how often that happens but I've known multiple people to do that.

This is a word document. Where should you save a word document?

In the documents folder. The documents folder.

That's right! You save it to the desktop!

no... No please...

What about this picture file? Where would you save a picture file?

In the pictures folder. Cmon...

That's right! You save it to the desktop!

oh god why....

I just downloaded this file... Where should I save it?

The... The downloads folder?

That's right! You save it to the desktop!

: '-(

For those that don't know... This is a reference to this video. https://youtu.be/cUbIkNUFs-4

People who save files on the desktop deserve to use Windows.

I love GNOME for this. No desktop icons. Windows/super key, type the first letter or two, boom. It's so pretty.

My phone on the other hand? The first screen is nicely arranged. The second screen is just a chronological list of the apps I've downloaded, because they automatically go to desktop, and they'll clutter up my home screen if I don't have a separate sacrificial screen for them

These days, replace "Documents" and "Downloads" with "the root folder of OneDrive".

I think she means OneDrive.

Its a black hole. You just drop files in there and never open them again.

This is some Window level joke. BTW, I put my configs in home directory.

I used the desktop all the time when I was on Windows. When I moved to Linux fulltime, KDE wouldn't let you save to desktop. Eventually I figured out how to fix that, but by that time I had the habit broken. Thankfully i never reverted and my shit is generally organized because of it.

Id just like to add that whoever started sending game files to the hidden part of documents should be shot. How hard is it to just make a Games folder and a Games Save folder?

On Android it's similar... On some apps(all?) you can't save to the downloads folder. Like WTF? Downloads is where temp stuff goes you damn green buffoon!

The top of your desk is exactly where you want the document that you will need in a minute to go. Its what bosses demanded since before modern computing

If that is not the intended usecase, then what is?

In linux i am saving stuff in a related project folder which may aswell be that projects own desktop.

This one guy at work has 3 layers of desktop icons. LAYERS. I don't know how he manages.

All IT support immediately revoked.

If the "shopping trolley test" determines good versus evil, then where you save your files determines lawful vs chaotic.

Lawful: specific files in specific places

Neutral: everything goes in downloads

Chaotic: everything goes on desktop