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It’s a default on some distros, unfortunately, and changing it without updating the necessary env vars will break a bunch of stuff.
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It would be a default on almost every distro that follows XDG specifications to have stuff like Downloads, Pictures, Videos in the folder. One of the first things I do as part of an installation is to modify ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and set a specific folder, say //downloads or ~/downloads, for every XDG base directory.
