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 ?

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I make an ~/all/ directory as a catchall for things that don’t fit elsewhere, since ~ is used by so many automatic softwares and config files, I like having a place that only I’ll write to.

    I also make ~/bin for general use and ~/all/GitHub/ for software I install from GitHub.

  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    3 days ago

    ~/Homework (porn)

    ~/aaaaaaa (porn)

    ~/Stuff (memes, with a porn subfolder)

    ~/misc (work docs, study docs, forms, some porn)

  • Chewt@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 day ago

    ~/Scripts for any bash or python scripts
    ~/Gits for any repos I clone
    ~/Projects for any projects im working on (not organized by programming language, but I do have some dirs called zig, go, etc., for when im learning a new language and want to make some projects for learning purposes)

    Most other files go into ~/Documents if they don’t have a home already, or don’t fit into the above directories

  • homura1650@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 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
  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    Public - for everything im seeding and sharing

    Apps - for all app images

    Games - for all lutris spam and random failed attempts at installing mods.

  • Renohren@lemmy.today
    2·
    2 days ago

    Separate folders in the download one. One for each app. And a separate /home/sync folder with the same app separation folders to safekeep the backups of android apps and DCIM folder.

  • taaz@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    ~/Projects which has everything I ever cloned or started. yes, it’s getting kind of painful to backup :D

  • owsei@programming.dev
    1·
    2 days ago

    ~/code for code

    ~/dots for git-backed nix configs

    ~/.rt for projects compiled locally (“runtime”)

    ~/Screencast for recordings of my screen

    I also create a ~/.shrc.bash symlink that points to ~/dots/bash/bashrc that reats ~/dots/bash/*.bash and sources the files

    ~/.shenv.bash where I keep environment (computer) specific settings

  • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    331·
    3 days ago

    My homedir is an infernal hellhole of junk accumulated over the past 15 years and I wouldn’t have it any other way

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Mine used to be like that, but now my home folder is rehabilitated by turning ~/Documents into a hellhole of accumulated junk instead.

    • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      I’d love to keep it clean but too many devs think $HOME is up for grabs, as long as they prepend their directory names with a dot (they think I’ll never notice, but I notice, and I keep a list…)

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      Mine used to be the same but the last OS reinstall I reset everything, moved my files onto an external drive, and only copied them over on a needs basis. I’d been keeping the same home dir since I was like 4 or however old I was when I started using a computer. So needless to say there was a lot there that made me cringe to see every time I tried to navigate my files.

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        You can also just make a file called .hidden and paste the names in there and it’ll hide them, that way it doesn’t mess up any paths/symlinks etc. Or at least in KDE/Dolphin you can do that, I dunno about other setups.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
      1·
      3 days ago

      There are 15 year olds using Lemmy??

      /s (my documents folder is the same, but older … much a lot too many very older :|)

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    ~/Repos (For all the github and other code repositories I work in)

    ~/Scripts (All my random Bash scripts, sometimes for testing out stuff)

    ~/Junk (Mostly used for testing programs or small project components that aren’t mature enough to have their own repo)