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drolex@sopuli.xyz
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Yes, but this is the default on many distros, so for once the end user is not to blame

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MooseBoys@lemmy.world
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Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.

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Synthead@lemmy.world
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Keep filling those bugs and stop complaining on random forums, kids

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FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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Porque no los dos?

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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Something something symlink Downloads to downloads

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MooseBoys@lemmy.world
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Yeah but the main issue is that I don’t want there to be a Downloads directory in my home.

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Number358@lemmy.world
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paperplane@lemmy.world
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This is all fun and games until you try moving a backup to a file system that’s case-insensitive

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zlatko@programming.dev
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Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

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unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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That’s not an environment variable. It’s defined in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/user-dirs.dirs.

Though you can use the xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD command to get it automatically.

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