I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from

Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?

What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Uh-oh… I’m going to answer this. n_n

    99% just dirs in ~/. ( Does making new dirs in /bedrock/strata count when manually adding strata? That’ll be about all there is in the other 1%. )

    • ~/bin
    • ~/gittings
    • ~/gittings/Digit (where I keep my local copies of my own git repos)
    • ~/images
    • ~/images/scrots
    • ~/images/ all the different things like dsktpbckgrnds, charts, memes, photos, gifs, etc & EDITS where I save most GIMP file artwork
    • ~/sounds
    • ~/.fonts (if the system does not create this already… so I can put my big tiny font collection “dbtfc” of otb and ttf fonts I made, in there, and have them “just work”).

    Oh, and this one’s a little fun:

    • ~/testdir in which i make a dir, a file, a media file, an executable, a fifo, a symlink, and a broken symlink, so I can ls that dir to see how everything looks in new themes.

    And locations for my sshfs mounts and external drives (faster to type than putting them each in ~/mount or ~/media or ~/mnt).

    • ~/bb
    • ~/o
    • ~/m or ~/t as symlinks to ~/mozart and ~/tyson depending on if on tyson or mozart. (I name my thinkpads after famous people born on the same day it arrives in the post).

    And then on bb external hd, loads of dirs, some notable ones

    • ./bkps
    • ./software
    • ./software/distros (where I store ISOs and system tarballs)
    • ./software/configs/ ; crypto/ ; doc/ ; games/ ; langs/ ; other/ ; virtuals/
    • ./cinema/
    • ./cinema/library (hiding the library in cinema, so I see it more often ;D)
    • ./cinema/_docu (for documentaries, lectures, interviews, etc)

    And on the webserver

    • ~/web
    • ~/web/stuff
    • ~/stuff (symlink to ^, that I use like my own personal pastebin) (… ~/o/stuff, from local machine).