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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by ChuckNorris89 on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:34AM (#30022130)
This^.

I still have my muscle memory tuned to creating and using only:

  C:\Games
  C:\Music
  C:\Movies
  C:\Pictures
  C:\Torrents
  C:\Workspace
I hate the default

  C:\Users\ChuckNorris89\Pictures\ or whatever.
Much prefer the linux ~/Pictures instead.

Or maybe this just shows how old I am.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by salamandersauce on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:07AM (#30022339)
Well ~ is basically just a shortcut to /users/ChuckNorris89. It's kind of surprising MS hasn't mapped ~ to go to basically the Windows home folder. In R on Windows you can use ~ to go there at least which is nice.
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by RReverser on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:42AM (#30024089)
FWIW ~ works in PowerShell too.
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by willis936 on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:03AM (#30022305) 

  %CSIDL_MYPICTURES%
  %USERPROFILE%\Pictures
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usm...

You can also add your own environment variables.

  setx pix "%SYSTEMROOT%\Pictures"
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:47AM (#30022695)
It works great but you won't escape the merriad of system folders in Documents or Pictures that way. Apps, games and the OS itself flooding these folders is the main problem why file management on Windows sucks.
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by vips7L on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:56AM (#30023499)
That even happens on Linux. Apps dump a thousand little files in ~.

Distros and package managers putting binaries in completely different spots. Is it /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? Who knows!

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by kilburn on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:53PM (#30032378)
> /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? Who knows!

If anyone is curious:

Historically /bin and /sbin contained the binaries that were necessary to bring up the system (especially to mount the /usr partition, which was "best practice" to have separately from the root and /boot partitions). Nowadays most distros just symlink them to /usr/(s)bin

/usr/sbin is for utilites that only root should use, whereas /usr/bin is for regular applications managed by your system (i.e.: your distro's default package manager).

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by sigzero on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:20AM (#30023083)
I prefer the short paths myself. I create something similar and add it to the quick access in explorer.
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