• @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    The top of your desk is exactly where you want the document that you will need in a minute to go. Its what bosses demanded since before modern computing

    If that is not the intended usecase, then what is?

    In linux i am saving stuff in a related project folder which may aswell be that projects own desktop.

  • @normalexit@lemmy.world
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    526 months ago

    Microsoft: put it in OneDrive. We will use your content to train our AI models. No really this is fine.

    • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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      156 months ago

      Also Microsoft: If you ever try to leave us we will delete all of your data on all of your devices. We might even do it at random just for fun…No, we won’t warn you.

      • WIZARD POPE💫
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        86 months ago

        I love the random deletetion. They deleted a whole year of my university notes just because.

    • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      66 months ago

      What exactly is the app? The GitHub page isn’t the most descriptive. How does it help you with backups?

      • Blastboom Strice
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        It’s not an app, it’s actually a very simple repo containing folders and readmes.

        It’s just a folder structure, which you can use on your system. Unzip the file and slowly fill the folders with your files. I had to create(or maybe even rename/delete) some folders to adapt it to my needs. It took me around 20days during summer to organize around 2-3tb of my laptop and my external disk.

        It was a kinda painful manual process, but I think it was really worth it, now things are well organized, I detected and removed hunderds of GB of unecessary/duplicate/unwanted files, it’s easier to navigate now, the structure is cleaner and syncing a big part of my drive is relatively easy now. There some files, like installed programs and their data which are in predefined paths and I didnt move those, so these were left out. Also some games save their data in Documents, so I symlinked their data in documents. And there’s the defauly downloads folder which is now more of a temporary folder for stuff I download before I move them or delete them.

        There is not exactly a standard for how to orginize your files, but this repo is a very good start:)

        Edit: I think organizing my files was my first step on the list in order to transition to linux, it would otherwise make it harder to properly backup and sync a mess of files gathering up for years. To sync my files to my external drive I just had to backup only ~10folders and one of which was the “root” (the one in the repo as you can see) which contained about 90% of my files. Much easier, much faster.

        • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          Taking a look now. This seems largely pretty smart. I am curious though, how much of the folder structure here felt relevant for you? For me I’m thinking it’s ~50%. I agree with you though, that it’s a good starting point. I was working on something similar in a text file a while back but never finished. Turns out, organization is pretty hard when you have collected data for 25 years.

          • Blastboom Strice
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            Ok, so, it takes about 96% of the data in the home partition. Here are some screenshots of Qdirstat scans of my laptop’s 1tb ssd:

            ~/:

            Qdirstat scan of "~/"

            ~/root/:

            Qdirstat scan of "~/root/"

            Many of the files here are flac files and some ancient movies I have. 😄

            Also, this is a (censored) directory list of top 3 levels of the root structure (I have put some unecessary dirs in Obsolete-dirs instead of deleting them and many dirs here are either empty or near-empty, like the book categories or the chart dirs):

            root
            root
            ├── Archives
            │   ├── Backups
            │   │   ├── Accounts
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── Linux-Transition [DELETE ONCE TRANSITIONED]
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── Datasets
            │   │   ├── Research
            │   │   └── Statistics
            │   ├── Health
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── Logs
            │   │   ├── AppList
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── Battery_report
            │   │   ├── Chkdsk
            │   │   ├── Crystal Disk Info
            │   │   ├── FileStructureList
            │   │   ├── Logs from when disk cloning failed in october 2021
            │   │   ├── Nox- vmlogs
            │   │   ├── Robocopy
            │   │   ├── Stellar phoenix - best photo recovery
            │   │   └── VirtualBox
            │   ├── Manuals
            │   │   └── Anduril 1 UI
            │   ├── Obsolete-dirs
            │   │   ├── News
            │   │   └── Scientific
            │   ├── Reciepts
            │   ├── Trip_documents
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── Websites
            │   │   ├── Curiosity.com
            │   │   ├── Ebay.com
            │   │   ├── Friv.com
            │   │   ├── Parametrek
            │   │   ├── UNI-T - Uni-trend.com
            │   │   ├── Xiaomi.eu
            │   │   └── Youtube
            │   └── [Censored]
            ├── Assets  //Note: here I thought of putting files 
            │   │       //related to education (like school) and possibly work too
            │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   └── [Censored]
            │       └── [Censored]
            ├── Audio
            │   ├── Download-lists
            │   │   ├── Shazam
            │   │   └── Spotify
            │   ├── Downloads
            │   │   ├── 1T
            │   │   ├── deemix Music
            │   │   └── Soulseek Downloads
            │   ├── Music
            │   │   ├── Flac
            │   │   ├── LRC_Backup
            │   │   └── Opus
            │   ├── Obsolete-dirs
            │   │   ├── Books
            │   │   ├── Podcasts
            │   │   ├── Soundfx
            │   │   └── Soundtracks
            │   ├── Playlists
            │   │   ├── Sabaton
            │   │   └── Song ratings
            │   ├── Recordings
            │   │   ├── B1 Zertifikat Hoeren
            │   │   ├── ECCE listenings
            │   │   └── Morphvox samples
            │   └── Web
            │       ├── Bandcamp
            │       ├── Deezer
            │       ├── Radio
            │       └── Youtube
            ├── Desktop-shortcuts
            │   ├── Game-Making - Creativity
            │   │   ├── 2D-3D Design
            │   │   ├── Misc
            │   │   ├── Music
            │   │   ├── Programing
            │   │   └── Video
            │   ├── Obsolete
            │   ├── System-Tools
            │   │   └── GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
            │   └── Unused
            ├── Documents
            │   ├── 3D Objects
            │   │   ├── 3D Builder
            │   │   └── 3d stuff
            │   ├── Logitech G502
            │   ├── Touch Typing
            │   └── [Censored]
            ├── Downloads
            ├── Games
            │   ├── Party
            │   ├── Sport
            │   │   ├── Competitive
            │   │   ├── Mind
            │   │   └── Physical
            │   ├── Tabletop
            │   │   ├── Board
            │   │   ├── Card
            │   │   ├── Dice
            │   │   ├── Pen-and-paper
            │   │   ├── Rpg
            │   │   ├── Strategy
            │   │   └── Tile-based
            │   └── Video
            │       ├── Arcade
            │       ├── Browser
            │       ├── Computer
            │       ├── Console
            │       ├── Handheld
            │       └── Mobile
            ├── Hobbies
            │   ├── Drone
            │   │   └── Hubsan H501S-S
            │   ├── Electronics
            │   │   ├── DPS5020 module
            │   │   ├── DPSsupplier-master
            │   │   ├── Falstad
            │   │   └── RidenPowerSupply_V1.0.0.9
            │   ├── Flashlights
            │   │   ├── D25l - Sc31Pro - SP36BLF - UV
            │   │   └── Nov-Mu
            │   ├── Gym
            │   │   ├── Exercises
            │   │   ├── FastnFitness
            │   │   └── Wii Fit Plus
            │   └── Youtube
            │       ├── 100kv Voltage booster module
            │       ├── [Censored]
            │       ├── TEMPGUN-Adobe
            │       └── YT Logos
            ├── Images
            │   ├── Artwork
            │   │   ├── Digital-art
            │   │   ├── Drawings
            │   │   ├── Logos
            │   │   ├── Paintings
            │   │   └── Sculpture
            │   ├── Charts
            │   │   ├── Area-charts
            │   │   ├── Bar-charts
            │   │   ├── Bubble-charts
            │   │   ├── Flowcharts
            │   │   ├── Infographics
            │   │   ├── Line-charts
            │   │   ├── Maps
            │   │   ├── Matrices
            │   │   ├── Mind-maps
            │   │   ├── Miscellaneous
            │   │   ├── Organizational-charts
            │   │   ├── Pie-charts
            │   │   ├── Sankey-diagrams
            │   │   ├── Spiral-diagrams
            │   │   ├── Treemaps
            │   │   ├── Venn-diagrams
            │   │   └── Wordclouds
            │   ├── Emojies
            │   │   ├── Discord Emojies1
            │   │   └── SignalEmojies
            │   ├── Icons
            │   ├── Obsolete-dirs
            │   │   ├── Animated
            │   │   ├── Memes
            │   │   ├── Photos
            │   │   └── Purpose-based
            │   ├── RandomPhotos
            │   │   ├── 2018-02
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── Screenshots
            │   │   └── Obsolete-dirs
            │   └── Wallpapers
            ├── Imports-Exports
            │   ├── Adobe
            │   │   ├── After Effects CC 2018
            │   │   ├── Photoshop
            │   │   └── Premiere Pro
            │   ├── Audacity
            │   │   ├── Army or not
            │   │   └── Sabaton OverdriveV2
            │   ├── Blender
            │   │   ├── 1st Game
            │   │   ├── BlenderGuruTutV2
            │   │   ├── blenderkit_data
            │   │   ├── D20
            │   │   ├── Flashbang Day
            │   │   ├── Gabbitt tut
            │   │   ├── NodesTut
            │   │   ├── Nov-Mu
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── UFO
            │   │   └── YT-Intro
            │   ├── Bottles
            │   │   ├── Bottles-Apps -> /home/bs/root/Software/Applications/Linux/Bottles-Apps
            │   │   ├── Bottles-Games -> /home/bs/root/Games/Video/Computer/linux/Bottles-Games
            │   │   ├── Configs
            │   │   └── Full-backups
            │   ├── Browsers
            │   │   ├── Chrome
            │   │   └── Firefox
            │   ├── ChoEazyCopy
            │   ├── Dss
            │   ├── Freecad
            │   ├── GDevelop
            │   │   ├── endless_runner_resources
            │   │   ├── My project
            │   │   ├── My project10
            │   │   ├── My project11
            │   │   ├── My project12
            │   │   ├── My project13
            │   │   ├── My project2
            │   │   ├── My project3
            │   │   ├── My project4
            │   │   ├── My project5
            │   │   ├── My project6
            │   │   ├── My project7
            │   │   ├── My project8
            │   │   ├── My project9
            │   │   └── Sparkman-GD5
            │   ├── Gimp
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   ├── Manual
            │   │   ├── Polo-bag_color-transformation
            │   │   ├── RandomMaterials
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── Inkscape
            │   │   └── Tutorials
            │   ├── Keepass
            │   │   └── Keepass-Database
            │   ├── Krita
            │   ├── LTspiceXVII
            │   │   ├── examples
            │   │   ├── lib
            │   │   └── Projects
            │   ├── Meshroom
            │   ├── Notepad++
            │   ├── OBS
            │   ├── Olive-Video-Editor
            │   │   ├── [Censored]
            │   │   └── We are Doomed
            │   ├── PowerBI
            │   │   └── [Censored]
            │   ├── Random_Configs
            │   ├── ShareX
            │   ├── Siril
            │   └── Unity
            ├── Literature
            │   └── DDC
            │       ├── 000 - COMPUTER SCIENCE. INFORMATION. GENERAL WORKS
            │       ├── 100 - PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY
            │       ├── 200 - RELIGION
            │       ├── 300 - SOCIAL SCIENCES
            │       ├── 400 - LANGUAGE
            │       ├── 500 - PURE SCIENCE
            │       ├── 600 - TECHNOLOGY
            │       ├── 700 - ARTS. RECREATION
            │       ├── 800 - LITERATURE
            │       └── 900 - HISTORY. GEOGRAPHY
            ├── Software
            │   ├── Applications
            │   │   ├── Android
            │   │   ├── Ios
            │   │   ├── Linux
            │   │   ├── Mac-osx
            │   │   ├── Mac-ppc
            │   │   ├── Win32
            │   │   └── Win64
            │   ├── Firmware
            │   │   ├── Android-dev
            │   │   ├── ESP2866
            │   │   ├── PL2303TA
            │   │   └── w10_stop_reset_fileasso
            │   ├── Scripts
            │   │   ├── C
            │   │   └── Python
            │   ├── Source
            │   ├── Systems
            │   │   ├── Apple
            │   │   ├── Apple Inc
            │   │   ├── Commodore International
            │   │   ├── IBM
            │   │   ├── Linux
            │   │   └── Microsoft
            │   └── Typefaces
            └── Video
                ├── Movies
                │   ├── Animated
                │   └── Live-action
                ├── Obsolete-dirs
                │   ├── Discs
                │   └── Vhs
                ├── Screen-Recording
                ├── Series
                │   ├── Animated
                │   └── Live-action
                ├── TAINIES PAIDIKES
                │   ├── Ant-Man 2015 HDTS x264 AC3-CPG
                │   ├── dukes-of-hazard
                │   ├── Epic (2013) [3D] [HSBS] [Greek Audio]
                │   ├── FROZEN 720p Greek Audio
                │   ├── gnom
                │   ├── HOODWINKED_2_TOO_HOOD_VS_EVIL.2011.GREEK_AUDIO
                │   ├── Hotel.Transylvania.2012.TS.XviD-RESiSTANCE
                │   ├── HOT_WHEELS
                │   ├── Ice Age Continental Drift 2012 Greek audio
                │   ├── Jurassic World 2015 1080p BRRip x264 DTS-JYK
                │   ├── knight-Rider
                │   ├── masoulamitigris
                │   ├── MIKROI-EINSTEIN
                │   ├── O_Mikros_Nikolas_2_Hmera_Podosfairou
                │   ├── Planes-greek-audio
                │   ├── RANGO_SIM_TM
                │   ├── Rio 2 (2014) DVDRip x264 AC3 5.1 Greek Audio
                │   ├── SM_Title12
                │   ├── spiroynatosgr
                │   ├── Sport.Vendeta.Billy.GreekStars
                │   ├── st_poyli
                │   ├── taglykakia
                │   ├── TA MYALA POU KOUBALAS
                │   ├── The Amazing Spiderman 2 2014 DVDrip Xvid Ac3-MiLLENiUM
                │   ├── The.Lorax.2012.Greek audio
                │   ├── The Pirates! Band of Misfits 2012  Greek audio
                │   ├── Wreck it Ralph 2012 TS READNFO x264 AAC-UNiQUE
                │   ├── xaroumenapodiaGR
                │   ├── xelonakia
                │   └── xugo720BLURAY
                └── Web
                    └── Youtube
            

            Btw, I have separate root, home and boot partitons on my nixos install, here’s the root partition:

            /:

            Qdirstat scan of "/"


            Lastly, the external hdd I have isn’t that organized, because many of the backup folder aren’t inside the root folder. I think putting them inside the /root/backup/ path would be the proper way, but this would probably break my backup workflow and mess with a script I have to sync my phone. I might do it one time:)

            • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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              Thank you so much for this! You’ve given me a lot of ideas. Last question, I think you mentioned symlinking – can you say more about how you are using symlinks? (I am familiar with the concept but maybe haven’t used them how you have for a purpose like this)

              • Blastboom Strice
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                Hehe, glad I helped:)

                can you say more about how you are using symlinks

                I havan’t yet used a lot of symlinking, but some of the stuff I do is:

                1. If you can see the dirlist, in ~/root/Imports-Exports/Bottles I have the bottles dir which contains 2 subdirs, Bottles-Apps and Bottles-Games. They are symlinks, pointing to bottles of apps (at ~/root/Software/Applications/Linux/Bottles-Apps) and games (at ~/root/Games/Video/Computer/linux/Bottles-Games) respectively (bottles are wine prefixes that the app “Bottles” creates to run windows programs).

                2. This one is again about windows games. I have the program files and data in 2 separate folder under ~/root/Games/Video/Computer/windows/GameX (where GameX represents a given game) and I symlink them inside the respective bottle dirs (2 of the games I have use the default Documents dir for saving the game data and because I dont have bottles isolated from the rest of the userspace, I symlinked the game data in ~/Documents).

                3. Because nixos uses symlinks for its app shortcuts, simply dragging app icons on the desktop doesnt work (it creates symlinks to the version of the app at this time). Thus, I have to go to nixos’s folder with shortcuts to my apps (which gets updated after update) and symlink each shortcut to my desktop.

                4. Another use for symlinks is to keep my dotfiles git versioned and sycned with codeberg, for which I’ll have to use gnu stow, but I still haven’t done this (my git knowledges are veery limited).

                You can do fun stuff, just be careful when copying/deleting/syncing symlinks, not to mess up anything (app tend to warn you if you want to follow the symlink (which affects the targeted file instead of the symlink) or not). They help to keep things tidy, but can get messy with improper use:)

                • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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                  Gotcha. Yeah I saw those -> indicators right after sending you that question. I just installed tree locally – it is nice! I keep forgetting about that one. I’m gonna take all this as inspiration and come up with a better system. I currently have a server/desktop with my whole entire data archive and a laptop that will have some backup-worthy files, I’d like to be able to easily back them both up locally and to the cloud.

                  I think getting better organized like you did first is the right move. I have a system in place for the desktop machine that works fairly well, but buying this new laptop threw a wrench into that system because I’d like to reuse it in both contexts but it’s currently not equipped to do that. I’ll figure it out :) But like you said, being organized helps efforts like that (among many others!)

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            Ok, umm, I sent a lengthy response with screenshots and a dirlist to see, somehow it didnt get sent. I’ll send it again later, but it will probably take me 4hours, gonna be busy for a little while😅

            (To answer your question, this structure holds around 96% of my user data.)

  • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    My documents folder had 0 weeks until a few weeks ago. Everything in custom subfolders of home

  • @JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    136 months ago

    These days, replace “Documents” and “Downloads” with “the root folder of OneDrive”.

    • @d00ery@lemmy.world
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      This drives me mad. I work on multiple projects, how the fuck can I organise things of its all in one folder! The interface to select a different folder is like 3 clicks away too.

  • @hOrni@lemmy.world
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    626 months ago

    I absolutely do it the other way. Nothing is on my desktop except for the trash bin. There is a shortcut to the file explorer and browser pinned to the task bar. And that’s it.

    • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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      There is nothing at all on my desktop except for a text document created by my girlfriend saying that she loves me that she snuck on there when I wasn’t looking.

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        Ah, a person of culture! Though I admit everything that I regularly use is pinned to the taskbar.

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Taskbar is all you need. Also, the windows/meta button, then just typing (or if you’re in KDE, literally just typing) the thing I want to do and hitting enter. Fuck desktop icons.

    • @Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      Windows + E for file explorer as well, when you can’t be bothered with the mouse. I wish you were able to pin specific folders to the taskbar, as opposed to just general explorer. I want to save one click.

      • @hOrni@lemmy.world
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        I use my keyboard as little as possible, so shortcut keys aren’t for me. I use a laptop, and am usually lying on the couch, too far to reach the keyboard. I have a few shortcuts mapped to my mouse. You’d be surprised how much I can surf the web with just the mouse. And sometimes even with my left hand.

  • hmmm
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    This is some Window level joke. BTW, I put my configs in home directory.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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    156 months ago

    I love GNOME for this. No desktop icons. Windows/super key, type the first letter or two, boom. It’s so pretty.

    My phone on the other hand? The first screen is nicely arranged. The second screen is just a chronological list of the apps I’ve downloaded, because they automatically go to desktop, and they’ll clutter up my home screen if I don’t have a separate sacrificial screen for them

    • MrPistachios
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      Windows works the same way, you just hit the windows key and start typing and you hit enter, made switching to popos much easier because I use it exactly the same way I do with my windows work laptop

      Also You should check out kiss launcher for phone, just start typing and whatever app you want shows up, also has a history list that tries to have apps you use frequently at specific times. Although after using kiss for a few years now whenever I have to use someone’s phone it makes it really hard, seeing all those screens with icons like how can you find anything

    • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      Same. I hate desktop clutter. The horrors I’ve seen when I’ve been on someone else’s PC. Random desktop documents that haven’t been touched in 5 years. Why?!

      Even aside from looking ugly, it’s not even a good place for apps/files! If you have a window or two open, everything is obscured and you have to move windows out of the way to access your stuff.

      They get a lot of shit for it, but IMO Gnome was 100% right to say “No. The desktop inevitably becomes a dumping ground and we don’t want that. Your app menu is for apps and your Home folder is for files. We have very good search functionality to find what you want. No desktop icons. If you want that, install an extension.”

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        The availability of extensions for everything is the true power of Gnome for me. They got most things right but I love being able to tweak every little detail to my exact liking

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        The reason I don’t use Gnome is “We don’t want that” Okay, and just who the fuck is ‘we?’

        • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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          “We” is obviously the hard-working developers who predominantly work on Gnome unpaid. The people who provide the software for free.

          To be completely honest, I’m not sure how you don’t know who “we” is in that context. When the devs of a project say “we”, who do you think they’re referring to, the Jackson 5?

          Literally every project makes decisions on what their vision is and enacts it. Gnome is no different.

          If you don’t like a piece of software, don’t use it. Nobody is forcing you to use it.

          Frankly, you sound entitled. They aren’t obliged to make their project to the way you want it. Especially not when you’re getting it for free. Entitlement like that is the biggest cancer in the FOSS community, IMO.

          • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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            Hmm, GNOME pays developers. There’s a team of full time employees steering GNOME, and staff. Sure they are a non-profit, but it’s a bit romanticizing to claim that they are doing all that work for free. I don’t think it is very nice or productive to call people names and gatekeeping FOSS this way. There’s such a thing as customization. It’s fine that GNOME is very opinionated (everyone accepts that they are and the project lead has said so time and time again that user choice is not part of their focus). But, at the same time, it’s not their project, there’s a complex governance structure that involves the community. It’s contradictory to speak this way about a component of a Linux distro. Linux is philosophically underlined by freedom of choice and personal customization, and it’s inappropriate to insult people for wanting some more of that.

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              No, no, no, no.

              Some developers do some paid work. The vast majority is unpaid. I’m not sure where you heard that, but that information is incorrect.

              And I never said they did all of the work for free, I said predominantly. Same goes for other projects.

              Please don’t try to twist my words, I feel I was very clear with them.

              Yes, it is their project. They own it. It’s theirs. They are the developers.

              Linux is philosophically underlined by freedom of choice and personal customization

              And Gnome doesn’t go against any of that. You are free to not use it. They aren’t forcing you. You are free to customise it. They aren’t stopping you.

              Please stop acting so entitled. This is software they are providing for free, the bulk of the work being unpaid. They don’t have to do free work for your specific needs if they don’t want to. It’s their project.

              I never insulted you. If my words hurt, then I’m sorry, my intention is not to hurt you.

              I’m just trying to steer you away from the path you’re on of thinking you’re entitled to XYZ and some predominantly unpaid devs have to cater to your whims. They do not. It’s their project, not yours, and they rightly call the shots.

              • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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                Sure, all those things could be argued to some degree or another. Just don’t call people cancer. Throwing insults devalues your argument.

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                  I never called you cancer, or insulted you.

                  See:

                  Entitlement like that is the biggest cancer in the FOSS community, IMO.

                  I said feeling like the devs owe you something is entitlement, which is a cancer to the FOSS world. You aren’t owed anything, and neither am I.

                  Nowhere did I say you were cancer, unless you happen to proudly identify as an extremely entitled person.

                  Like I said, sorry if my words hurt you, but you aren’t entitled to have the devs carer to you specifically. The project is theirs and if you don’t like it, fork it or use something else. That’s what FOSS is all about.

                  Why do you think unpaid devs should have to do as you say?

    • @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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      This is actually the one thing I hate about GNOME. I keep a nearly fully empty desktop but I like having one as sort of a staging ground for temp files. I like just being able to chuck a file there and then drag it into another program, all without having nautilus open

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        Yeah, desktop as the temp location is great for a few reasons.

        I can easily see what is in the queue.

        It reminds me to do something about it.

        I can rearrange the dozen or so icons for fun when I am having trouble picking what to do. Kind of like inventory management in an rpg.

        When I hit about 15 it prompts me to clear the list by either finishing them or putting them all away so I can start again with a clear screen.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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        Iirc, there’s an extension to allow for desktop icons? I may be misremembering, it might be a setting somewhere. Either way, I’m sure you can do it.

        • @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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          Oh yeah there is, it comes with Ubuntu. It’s a bit janky compared to the former native implementation though :(.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      This is exactly how I use KDE, but without the GNOME look, which I am not a fan of. You don’t even need to hit meta first in KDE, you can just start typing if you have krunner on.

  • Diplomjodler
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    People who save files on the desktop deserve to use Windows.

  • @FuCensorship@lemmy.today
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    On Android it’s similar… On some apps(all?) you can’t save to the downloads folder. Like WTF? Downloads is where temp stuff goes you damn green buffoon!

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        Well, has been like this on Android 10, 14 and now I’m on 15 so idk. Also searched online and Google says it’s a “security feature”.

        4226

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          Never seen this. Seems like you selected the option to only allow this app to save to specific folders?

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    If the “shopping trolley test” determines good versus evil, then where you save your files determines lawful vs chaotic.

    Lawful: specific files in specific places

    Neutral: everything goes in downloads

    Chaotic: everything goes on desktop

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      Lawful Good - Saved in specific places

      Lawful Evil - Saved in recycle bin

      Neutral Good - Saved in downloads

      Neutral Evil - Saved in downloads or documents but you’re not sure which one

      Chaotic Good - Everything goes on desktop

      Chaotic Evil - Everything goes into a random location

      • Steve Dice
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        New alignment: Chaotic Lawful: I deleted my desktop folder to prevent me from cluttering the desktop

      • snooggums
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        Lawful Neutral: Saved in specific places, one of which is the desktop.

  • @antimidas@sopuli.xyz
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    The cursed Linux alternative of this is usually putting things directly in the home folder – I used to do this until I got better. Desktop is simple to keep clean when you don’t have one in your “desktop environment” by default.

    Some people who’ve used MacOs before OSX dump everything to the root filesystem out of habit. It works just as poorly as a file management strategy as one might expect, albeit better than putting everything on the desktop. Not sure how often that happens but I’ve known multiple people to do that.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      For some reason I hate the idea of just dropping everything in the Home folder, yet Downloads just ends up becoming exactly that anyway lol

  • @calmblue75@lemmy.ml
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    Kde gives me the option to keep my desktop folder, or any other folder, or files linked to that specific activity as my Desktop.