I mean I feel stupid typing it now, but I’ve been using Windows since I was 5 years old, and Linux for about 30 days. It was not apparent to me that many of my folders were actually shortcuts to stuff in my user directory, and now that I know to look out for them the location of my applications make sooo much more sense.
Hey no worries, we all start somewhere.
Now that you know about symlinks, you can get creative with them: https://sparkventure.net/the-versatility-of-symbolic-links-in-linux-a-guide-with-examples/
The hard part now is to avoid overdoing it: https://www.ceos3c.com/linux/understanding-linux-symbolic-links-a-beginners-guide/#best-practices-and-common-pitfalls
That beginners guide says to avoid creating circular symlinks. What if, entirely hypothetically, I already have a circular symlink?
I created a symlink to the directory the symlink is in. If I try and simply ‘delete’ the symlink in a file browser it tells me that gigs of data will be deleted
“Overdoing it” doesn’t exist when you understand what it can accomplish. Bedrock Linux for example is based on symlink abuse from what I understand
I’ll have to look into that distro later. Anything particularly noteworthy about it, besides the symlink abuse?
Edit: I did some rudimentary searching, apparently it’s a meta distro that let’s you mix and match stuff from multiple linux distros: https://bedrocklinux.org/
That’s actually pretty wild. I might play around with this in the future
