Lemdro.id

-1 points

6 months ago

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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

15 points

6 months ago

What I want in $HOME are the following directories:

If I’m on a GUI-based environment:

Desktop
Documents
Downloads

In general:

.local
my_junk_folder_i_made

I’d like everything else to live within something like ~/.local thanks

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8 points

6 months ago

Maybe Linux should have .local and .roaming folders like Windows. local = only useful on this system, roaming = good to sync across systems. Config would be in .roaming if it’s not machine-specific.

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rotopenguin@infosec.pub

6 points

6 months ago

The only practical difference between Local and Roaming and LocalLow is that developers randomly pick one and dump your game saves in there.

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luciferofastora@lemmy.zip

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5 points

6 months ago

Does ~/.config fit the bill for the second one?

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6 points

6 months ago

There’s some stuff in~/.config that’s specific to the computer. KDE is a good example - a lot of KDE apps mix config and state in the same file. There’s some solutions for syncing these files, like https://github.com/VorpalBlade/chezmoi_modify_manager which is an addon to Chezmoi that can exclude particular keys when storing an INI-style config file in Git.

I’m sure there’s some config files in there that are entirely specific to the computer. Things like the Wayland per-monitor scaling settings are in there somewhere I think.

There’s also things like data files that you may want to keep in sync across machines. They’re not really configs.

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1 point

6 months ago

There is a .local folder these days.

Profile roaming hasn’t been solved aside from NFS mounts. I guess Syncthing might work.

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1 point

6 months ago

I know .local exists - My comment was more about .roaming which would be nice to exist, but doesn’t currently exist.

Profile roaming hasn’t been solved aside from NFS mounts. I guess Syncthing might work.

I’m using Chezmoi to sync some dotfiles, scripts, etc. to a Git repo and that seems to work well enough for me. I’m not syncing much yet, though.

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