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Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by SchemaLoad on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:51PM (#46029475)
The average user does not see things like app config files, cache data, etc as their own files. The current /home has so much absolute junk that it's easy to not know where your stuff is. "Real" files to a normal user are .docx, photos, downloaded files, etc. Not auto generated configs.

There ideally should be some separation between your actual documents and system utility stuff. I guess this has mostly happen already with real files sitting in cloud storage. With local storage just being replacable.

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Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by pxc on Monday November 24, 2025 @07:13AM (#46033256)
> .docx

goes in ~/Documents

> photos

go in ~/Pictures

> downloads

go in ~/Downloads

> Not auto generated configs.

No Linux applications ever put configuration data in any of the aforementioned locations...

> it's easy to not know where your stuff is.

?????

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Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by 1718627440 on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:55AM (#46034121)
> The average user does not see things like app config files, cache data, etc as their own files.

All the more reason to put this stuff into the user directory, so that it is automatically included in backups and syncs done by the unaware user.

> The current /home has so much absolute junk that it's easy to not know where your stuff is.

Not my experience. Application data of application XYZ is either in ~/.xyz or in ~/.{config,local,cache}/xyz, depending on whether the application is FHS compliant or not.

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