CLI being faster can sometimes depend on typing speed and errors
CLI being faster can sometimes depend on typing speed and errors
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I use CLI in Windows all day long, but I don't expect normies to have to learn it.
CLI being faster can sometimes depend on typing speed and errors
I use CLI in Windows all day long, but I don't expect normies to have to learn it.
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It's Linux. You're supposed to name your user data folders
~/doc
~/dsk
~/dwn
~/mus
~/pic
~/vid
or even better, just use /tmp as your download folder.
This is the best and funniest comment I’ve read all week.
You can also setup custom dirs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
All of mine (except Desktop) point to "$HOME/downloads"
Im halfway to grey beard at this point but didn't know this. Thanks.
That's because modern desktops (looking at you, Gnome) have decided that discoverability isn't worth their time. They want empty, pretty interfaces with minimal functionality.
I use gnome and love it so not sure how that at all even relates here.
It's completely irrelevant to your de.
You've downloaded half your life from the internet?
My whole drive is half downloads folder and half OS
You don't keep stuff in /dev/null?
dl
, sh
, src
, var
, old
, pic
, app
, books
that's mine. No bin
yet - it's a new installation with a home_old.tar.zst
file for the old.
EDIT: Of course I do have a Downloads
directory, I've just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.