CLI being faster can sometimes depend on typing speed and errors
CLI being faster can sometimes depend on typing speed and errors
I use CLI in Windows all day long, but I don't expect normies to have to learn it.
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It's Linux. You're supposed to name your user data folders
~/doc
~/dsk
~/dwn
~/mus
~/pic
~/vidor even better, just use /tmp as your download folder.
20 2 ReplyYou don't keep stuff in /dev/null?
3 0 ReplyI keep half my life in that downloads folder. It is not going anywhere near /tmp.
39 0 ReplyThis is the best and funniest comment I’ve read all week.
10 0 ReplyYou can also setup custom dirs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
All of mine (except Desktop) point to "$HOME/downloads"
4 0 ReplyIm halfway to grey beard at this point but didn't know this. Thanks.
1 0 ReplyThat's because modern desktops (looking at you, Gnome) have decided that discoverability isn't worth their time. They want empty, pretty interfaces with minimal functionality.
2 1 ReplyI use gnome and love it so not sure how that at all even relates here.
It's completely irrelevant to your de.
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You've downloaded half your life from the internet?
1 0 ReplyMy whole drive is half downloads folder and half OS
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dl
,sh
,src
,var
,old
,pic
,app
,books
that's mine. No
bin
yet - it's a new installation with ahome_old.tar.zst
file for the old.EDIT: Of course I do have a
Downloads
directory, I've just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.2 0 Reply