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@Maxume7 ай бұрын
That seems like a inordinate amount of work to just not see dot files. But then again, haven't we all spent copious amounts of time at some point, fixing something that bothers literally no one else? The symptoms of a true nerd.
@thingsiplay7 ай бұрын
Sometimes I think the Windows "hidden" attribute would have been a good idea to have in Linux as well, in addition to dotfiles. This way we could mark any file we want to be hidden, without changing its filename and therefore path. If someone don't like that, then one could just ignore the hidden attribute and show all files.
@OcteractSG7 ай бұрын
That’s not a bad idea. In fact, prefixing a file name with a dot was not supposed to hide it. That was a bug that never got fixed, and now it’s considered intended behavior.
@Tech-Mark7 ай бұрын
This is so true ! The things I waste time on that bug only me is almost embarrassing.
@xellaz7 ай бұрын
True. For me one example is MX Linux. It has a good set of right-click commands such as right-clicking on a file using the option to check the checksum. It bothered me so much that CRC32/SFV wasn't included---only MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512. I went out of my way to edit some system files to include CRC32 in the same place where the other file checksums are available and felt so guuuuud after I have it working perfectly the way I want it. Why include CRC32? I dunno... I'm just so familiar using that file checksum during my IRC anime fserver days... it just stuck on me ya know? 🤪
@joeyr98767 ай бұрын
This is over-complicated. The way I do this is to make a /data directory, then move and symlink my home directories accordingly to this directory (also some config files get moved here). Then I do not have to change all those system configs you are talking about, as the way Linux sees things, everything is still where it belongs. Also, to backup my system, all I need to grab is /data. If it is not in /data, then it can be re-installed and I do not need to worry about it.
@leopard31317 ай бұрын
Was about to post the same thing. Any critical dot files/directories back up to /data. Examples. .ssh .gpg .bashrc etc .user-dirs.dirs I do edit this, but only once
@costascostas17607 ай бұрын
Me too, and the folder is synced to my NAS so that it makes it very easy to reinstall the OS if needed. Issue is remembering which folders are important to create symlinks when first installed 😂
@zero-divide-x7 ай бұрын
After reading your comment, I ended-up creating a mhome folder, and doing a symlink in it pointing to the desired directories. It is a sound solution and has the exact same effect.
@konstantink077 ай бұрын
Use zoxide and (almost) never type absolute paths again. Also, an alternative to your setup would be symlinking the stuff you need to a separate directory instead of moving it. Or maybe an overlayfs-based approach, which would eliminate the need to create symlinks manually. Yeah, I think I'm gonna try this!
@ayushrawal7067 ай бұрын
You can make cd a function which behaves as normal cd when number of arguments is more than 0.
@aarond3097 ай бұрын
this should work in any posix shell: cd() { if [ “$#” -eq 0 ]; then command cd “$HOME/mhome” else command cd “$@“ if } in bash, you can simplify it to cd(){ builtin cd “${1-$HOME/mhome}” “${@:2}”; }
@_MisterPink7 ай бұрын
Dotfiles are dotfiles, because you're not normally supposed to see them. You configuring everything to always show them is like shooting yourself in the foot and complain about limping. My home dir looks exactly like your new one, without showing dotfiles lol.
@Technopath477 ай бұрын
Every time someone says to me that I shouldn't store my folders in my /home/user/Desktop directory, I show them what happens to my Home directory. Same thing applies to the Documents folder, IDK why programs feel the need to dump their crap in there too.
@VanDonien7 ай бұрын
I also don't like the clutter. But all of this is way more hassle than it's worth. At least to me.
@mckendrick76727 ай бұрын
Hey, I made that comment. The way you've done it will probably have fewer pit-falls than mine - I moved the home directory with usermod to "Local" as a kinda "appdata drawer" of sorts (like Library on OS X and AppData on Windows) in line with the naming convention of the rest of the user-dirs, but this causes me to have to reveal home to certain flatpaks manually. I just did it that way because I originally wanted to move "~/.config" to "~/.local/etc". The way you've done it will probably only have minor annoyances with apps that ignore the user-dirs by default - but you could just symlink all those directories from your old home to your new home and forget about it. Of course, there's also the annoyance of "~" being defined as $HOME no matter what; I just created a variable called FH (files home) and use $FH in commands in place of ~. I actually might change to doing it this way instead as well, because "~/../" is less intuitive than something like "~/files". I actually doubt "~/home" would cause any problems but "/home/name/home" does look a little weird; could change the default home directory location to "/users/" like some other unices do so that it would be "/users/name/home" - though this may cause an issue for any program made by an idiotic developer who hardcodes "/home/$USER" rather than using "$HOME".
@oglothenerd7 ай бұрын
In Bash and ZSH and any other shell, you can have if statements.
@soulstenance7 ай бұрын
I actually did this for another reason - I have all my personal files on a different drive. It had the unintended, but nice effect of having a clean home directory even though my real system home directory is quite a mess. Nemo seems to only respect the XDG DIRS for the Desktop folder so I have to make new bookmarks for the rest, but it works great overall and my home directory is completely separate from my system meaning I can do whatever I want, even wipe it and install a different OS without my home directory ever being touched. Never thought of making an alias but that's a neat idea! Anyone who uses fish (imo the best shell out there), you can set aliases with the command: alias --save name_of_alias "actual command you want to execute" Note that you must add the --save argument or it will not carry over to new terminal sessions!
@thingsiplay7 ай бұрын
I have a dedicated drive for other files, which I call "My" (short for my files, like in My/Music or My/Videos). Its root of the drive contains folders like "Music" and "Documents" in example. I just bind them into my home with fstab. You can think of the drive as my mhome basically, without changing variables or like that. So if I don't want to see my home stuff, then I just go to "My"
@hotohori666Ай бұрын
What about leaving /home as it is. Get separate disc to store folders like there (Documents, Downloads...etc), so basically you treat /home like folder for configs, and you have files on different place so you will be able to reinstall system without losing data?
@brennanfee74587 ай бұрын
I've been doing this for years. I label it "profile". I even do the same thing on (my sole) Windows machine, create a "Profile" folder on the C: root. I have an environment variable $PROFILE that points to it and so on. Works great and keeps things nice and organized.
@mattvisaggio7 ай бұрын
I would get so lost doing this. I want to know if you stick with it
@mskiptr7 ай бұрын
Do you read the bottom of the comment sections? I wrote how you can achieve something similar in a less hacky and much simpler way, but apparently YT doesn't like it.
@Bluesky-ul9mq7 ай бұрын
I used a similar approach symlink Documents, Desktop and all those folders to a new location. It was easier so I could format easily my home subvolume on btrfs, and is also a really fast way to start with clean dotfiles. All the data I care about is in the other location anyway. But I never did it to have a clean home, it's good enough for me (after setting some env and all that).
@nizzuta26117 ай бұрын
You could also just make those folders subvolumes inside the home subvolume. Snapshots aren't recursive when a subvolume is inside another one
@denizkendirci7 ай бұрын
i don't have a file manager, i always see the hidden files on terminal too, but it doesn't bother me, for the simple reason of having no personal file. i don't have photos, i don't have videos, music etc. so essentially my home directory is for those dotfiles :D they are not the mess, they are main reason of the directory for me. if i am in the home directory, i am in there for editing dotfiles, that's the only reason i am there. but i still like watching videos about these kinda creative solutions. like you said, it was brilliance.
@ThePhiliposophy7 ай бұрын
Interesting take on how to view the home directory. Question: You don't have any personal files whatsoever or do you keep them elsewhere (cloud, phone etc.)? I know some keep all their docs, pics, vids etc. in the google cloud
@Emancipatriot7 ай бұрын
I am totally OCD about my home directory too 😂. I feel a little more normal to relate to you about this. I thought it was a just me thing
@shallex57447 ай бұрын
what i do is run problematic programs inside of a wrapper script that changes the HOME variable to a fake home directory, then within that fake home, symlink common directories like .config and .local back to their normal counterparts in my real home, so that the fake home'd programs can access them like normal. everything seems to work seamlessly, and i'd argue it's simpler than this solution as there's less readjusting/configuring to do to get everything to use the fake home, as everything simply works as it's supposed to on account of the actual HOME variable being changed, but only on a per-program basis, so it avoids the issue you mentioned of changing HOME globally, which would just move the problem from one directory to another and not actually solve anything
@linearz7 ай бұрын
Thanks.. seems good idea
@Dragonopolis7 ай бұрын
This is a pretty good tutorial .... I used to do the Data partition or folder back in the day when symlinking was all the craze.... but symlinks are messy too in the way so I went back to regular old Home and just dealt with the mess.... Oh Matt by default the ls command does not show hidden files or folders... It's common these that developers of whatever Linux Distro inject their own ideas on how to use linux commands thus you sometimes get Aliases that shouldn't happen. Example sometimes I see ls command set as an alias to ls -a option. To those who don't know about Linux Aliases it allows users to rename commands or create new commands with scripting to change the behavior of the current command and the -a options tells ls to list all. Typing ls -a isn't that hard and instead of changing the definition of ls using alias it would have been better to give the ls -a option a new name and keep normal function of ls which does NOT show hidden files and folders as a default state..... Check your distro to see where they may put their aliases. I never used openSUSE so can't help you there... Now I just filter the results sometimes combining ls with grep if I get tired of typing a super long command I just use bash or shell script and shorten it to a name.sh or alias to bash... I occasionally us system.d (where it makes sense not all linux distros use system.d so can't be too reliant). To bascially achieve what I need accomplish to keep my filesystem clean and human readable . I haven't really dug in to learn all that is XDG has to offer but your short little example/tutorial really shows there is some cool use cases for it and I like how clean and easy to read the config looked so need to play around with this as NixOS is XDG compatible since symlinks in NixOS can be problematic.... Could see some use case with Distrobox as well to solve certain problems
@ifohancroft6 ай бұрын
Can you stack the backslashes to go further up? I mean, you know how Bash first looks for the name in aliases, then functions, then built-in commands, then hash tables, then in $PATH? If you have an alias, a function, and a buil-in command, can you use 2 backslashes before the name to get it to execute the built-in command?
@nowycwan7 ай бұрын
Why just do not use function called cd in place of alias? When called without argument, it will call cd new home. When called with argument, it will call cd argument. You can call real cd, by example by providing full path.
@jalfredprufrock19157 ай бұрын
For cd, you could do something like this: cd() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then builtin cd ~/mhome else builtin cd "$@" fi } Tbh, though, we need Linus or someone to force a fix for this. It's silly how the home directory is used in linux. Windows does it better even. Sad
@xellaz7 ай бұрын
I already do something like this but I leave the main home directory alone as I know that's where all the config files usually goes to when you install something. But for the Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, etc.... I change all their default locations to point to my other SSD storage drive which the OS is not installed on. This way even if I wipe my OS and install a new one, I can just point these folders again to that SSD storage drive. Been doing this since Windows and now on Linux... lol 🤪
@ManiacalMoogle7 ай бұрын
Rather than using gh, you could use a function for cd instead of a standard alias. The function would detect if you have an argument passed to it (a directory), and if not, go to your new home.
@ManiacalMoogle7 ай бұрын
I just realized my idea was already mentioned by @ayushrawal706 . My bad
@vaisakhkm7837 ай бұрын
actually i done this years ago, called it Root... i synced those 1 folder over to windows, cloud and phone too.... now when i reinstall system, i only need to back up this folder, but then again, mostly it would be synced so i don't have to worry about it..
@catfan56185 ай бұрын
I totally feel you. It seems like almost no one else understands us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@gingered7 ай бұрын
The cd issue could also be replaced with a function where if blank then CD to $newhome else CD $1
@TheLazyJAK7 ай бұрын
Why wouldn't you do the opposite? You mention 4:41 changing the env var would just be moving the problem somewhere else, but isn't that exactly what you want? Then you can use actual /home as normal
@lilamdahal61197 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking! I'd rather have the default home for my personal stuff with one extra directory which will be considered the new $HOME where all the dotdirs and dotfiles will be dumped by programs, which I don't mind at all.
@that_leaflet7 ай бұрын
Some apps still may target /home/$USER rather than ~. So your solution would be fine for most apps, but not the worst offenders.
@mckendrick76727 ай бұрын
@@that_leafletApps which do use "/home/$USER" should have this reported as a bug - it breaks basic functionality on any system which do not put homes in /home - Fedora Silverblue for example, which uses "/var/home", and MacOS which uses "/Users"
@tommy87017 ай бұрын
The cd issue can be fixed by a custom function, e.g something like: cd() if (($# == 0)); then command cd $mhome; else command cd "$1"; fi For the dot directories, you can create one aggregate directory in your mhome and inside of it you can have symlinks to the actual dot directories from $HOME.
@n1vz3r7 ай бұрын
I'm with "pretend they're not there" camp, dot files are hidden for a reason )
@Jeff_Seely7 ай бұрын
Thank you Matt, it is a truly smart way to organize. In the beginning of your video, you mentioned changing environment variables and for me, I am in favor of this. Personally, I am still learning a lot and I like to go to fix it. Articles and use the copy and paste function. If I change my home directory name and I need to point to it, this poppy feature will not work very well because my home directory name has changed and for times where it is important I will have to change the command I copied. Copied. But with changing environment variables, this activity will work. I want it to. Hope that makes sense. Have a great day!
@Skelterbane697 ай бұрын
I keep my personal files in my opt folder and steam games and other homie stuff in my home folder. Stuff that I want to delete goes into opt. I have them on separate drives too, which is what sparked the idea.
@raportmercado11657 ай бұрын
I did what you are doing expect some annoying app/services, but remember that OSuse use to hide the real home directory for any access different from booting the system, if somebody boot my pc from a live Linux, he could access to the new home directory, the solution is to encrypt the disk.
@netsudro7 ай бұрын
Yes, I don't like this either. Being my home directory I want to organize it as I like. In windows I didn't care, because all my stuff was in D:/ and didn't bother with My Documents. I really didn't care about anything in the C:/ partition, as I was ready anytime to reinstall.
@pimactv97787 ай бұрын
Stop aliasing CD, use a function instead, if CD has no arguments or switches go home else run the command as is. No backslashes or escapes needed. Aliases are OK for basic tweaks, but you really should look into functions you can do so much more with them including maintaining original usage of commands, and creating multiple variants or saved configurations that can apply to changing arguments. :)
@pimactv97787 ай бұрын
A common function some people put in their bashrc is mkcd, if dir exists CD into it, if not mkdir and then CD into it.
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
Read the screen.
@pimactv97787 ай бұрын
I did read, say the note before and after, but even though GH (go home) seems sane and simple (something I would totally do myself). It is entirely possible to maintain the original function of all the commands, and not need to remember additional ones, it makes things seamless. Also the moment you try GH on another system by force of habit it will interrupt your workflow. :)
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
Sorry, didn't mean to get snappy. Just had four comments like yours all at the same time@@pimactv9778
@dacdparis7 ай бұрын
i think your mess starts on KDE + i3 + xmonad + hyprland + Qtile + bspwm and Krusader + dolphin + thunar + yazy + ranger + spacefm and emacs + doom emacs + vim + neovim + kate + ...... its not all linux devs fault ;)
@FengLengshun7 ай бұрын
What about just using boxxy? It even has a home-manager module, so you can set both the boxxy alias and boxxy config there. Other than that, is why I use Flatpak, Distrobox, and Conty. Conty in particular is convenient since they have a preset for setting HOME, and you can export .desktop files with that HOME and other SANDBOX settings baked in. I then just sed the name to say if it's sandboxed or not.
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
I've never seen boxxy before, but it looks like magic. I will look at it.
@thelanavishnuorchestra7 ай бұрын
We all have our pet peeves, and this is clearly yours. Luckily, it doesn't much bother me. Yes, turning on and off hidden files in Thunar, ok, yeah, but I leave them off unless I'm specifically doing something with them. My .files issues are complicated by having .themes, .icons, etc and because I make music, I have .vst and vst3 folders, so I just can't be fussed. My goal is keeping it clean of regular files and having the rest of my stuff organized.
@mskiptr7 ай бұрын
Alright, here's what you can do instead for very little effort: a) Create a ~/.local/state/fake-home/ directory. b) For any $program that litters in your ~ create a ~/.local/bin/$program wrapper script that calls /usr/bin/$program with HOME=…/fake-home and all the arguments untouched. A global location like /usr/local/bin/ is fine too. For more programs you can either copy the script and change the name or create one script that looks at $(basename "$0") and just symlink to it whenever you find something new. c) If you're using .desktop files, copy the ones that misbehave to ~/.local/share/applications/ and modify their Exec lines to set the fake home.
@exoriy7 ай бұрын
Different approach would be to make links to those XDG folders. Not sure if it's better though. After that, I'd just change dolphin and terminal profile settings to open "my room" folder from original home as default
@yasud16027 ай бұрын
Or, you can make a favorites folder with 'software links' to those directories, you can even call it 'home' if you want
@dragonwood45625 ай бұрын
Instead of moving the folders to your new home directory. Why not just put a shortcut to them in there? That way you don't have to tell anything where they are, but you can still access them from your new clean-looking interface.
@bojanstrkovski217 ай бұрын
You can sim link config folder to the new home directory😁
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
I've thought about, and decided to keep the config file separate. I just don't need to see it that often. The only good reason to transfer it or link it, is to ensure when I'm in $NEWHOME, I can cd into config without having to do the whole ~/.config. I just got around this by creating an alias.
@Winnetou177 ай бұрын
Now a real comment ... I wonder how complicated would be to just patch every misbehaving program to put the config files in the correct location. On Gentoo. Theoretically the change should be pretty small, and in a pretty stable place, for each program, but I'm too lazy and resistant to mess and chaos to care and check / do it. But it can be the most elegant solution. And no more CD or GH aliases nor fear of scripts.
@Dennis-Earl-Smiley7 ай бұрын
Thats why i have standard scripts, so that i can have a layer where i can create custom commands. Then you just create commands with shell scripts to make it behave like a home dir.
@oalfodr7 ай бұрын
This would not be ok for me. I do not want to just move my starting point. But if it works for you, ok. You do not even need to move all directories like downloads and video, you can simply create symbolic links to your fake home and just make sure your fm opens there
@oalfodr7 ай бұрын
For example, I have Downloads linked to write on a HDD instead of SSD where my home is. And apps write to ~/Downloads but that ends up on different mount point
@Winnetou177 ай бұрын
On th CD issue ... yes, I know, many commented already. None provided the correct solution. So: - using "gh" alias instead of "cd" - works, but no it's not nice - using a function that can detect when it's with 0 arguments and behave accordingly - also works, absolutely horrible - using "dvd" alias instead of "cd" - the TRUE solution. Just level up the CD 😁
@tacticaltaco74817 ай бұрын
Why not create symbolic links into your real home directory, keeping the normal file structure for everything in the home directory but having your "clean" home directory work similarly to a "favorites" directory in windows.
@Tech-Mark7 ай бұрын
Great hack, thank you sir !
@everywan7 ай бұрын
for 8:30; I'd personally would have used a function instead of an alias for cd.
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
I just changed it to gh, as I said in the video. It was easier and makes me forcably remember what I've done
@torspedia7 ай бұрын
Gonna have a play with that myself. Ta for the idea. 🙂
@abdulrahimanis5847 ай бұрын
Why to move all these files and change All these configurations just use ln -s and link that directories your inside your new home directory. And for the cd thing u can defined a function in your rc file that checks for arguments if any preform the cd command as usual if not preform cd ~/mhome/
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
As I explained to others, links break.
@sergeykish7 ай бұрын
That's Documents folder
@jimmcg2297 ай бұрын
I'm confused how using a GUI file manager is different than just not aliasing ls to ls -a ??? Am I missing something?
@jimmcg2297 ай бұрын
Matt, I'm 90% sure you're just explaining an extremely complex version of ls and alias la=ls -a If you want to see different files at different times, use a different command. Use aliases for common ones. No need to go moving files all over the place.. Practicality aside, pretty unique little setup either way. Still fun to see the weird things you can do with Linux lol
@SirSomnolent7 ай бұрын
Honestly yeah I've gave up a long time ago and just created a local/ where MY stuff has been ghettoized to. I hadn't thought of xdg stuff though thanks
@user-hc5sc4yu6i7 ай бұрын
I don't know if aliases are called recursively but if they are not you could Alias CD to your new home folder and Alias CD space to CD which would give you back its original functionality. However if the Alias works for recursively this wouldn't fix anything.
@konstantink077 ай бұрын
just use a function
@j_t_eklund7 ай бұрын
I have moved my system to a virtual fs for each application. Basically all of them now resides in its own home. Zero clutter in my homedir. Some apps I had to patch so they worked as expected. The funny part is I can use different theming on apps with ease this way. It also gives me a direct view of apps that does not behave good. As they still do what they do normaly just without clutter.
@oalfodr7 ай бұрын
How is krusader better than several windows of some minimal and extensible fm like lf? Just open several instances if you do not want to create shortcuts/jump marks and move between dirs
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
Why on earth would I want to open up several instances of anything? That's what tabs were invented for
@oalfodr7 ай бұрын
@@TheLinuxCast Because you can see all instances at once and not have to go to hidden views. Sort of how would split pane fm look like. But if you insist on having tabs, you can switch your wm to a monocle or something similar where windows are stacked over each other. But I do not like tabs that much in browsers neither. If I cannot see it, I either move it to other workspace or close it
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
That's what panes are for. And I don't need multiple running instances. PID bloat @@oalfodr
@oalfodr7 ай бұрын
@@TheLinuxCast Haha sure. With all the clutter in your home and .config, I thought you would not mind that. But apart for more processes (not necessarily), you would likely end up with the same result while having app that is easier to modify and takes up less resources (even if having multiple instances (I wanted to confirm this but I do not want to install 300+ mb of dependencies for krusader))
@opfax1637 ай бұрын
just create a home folder in your home directory
@techtude7 ай бұрын
I tried this method by myself before .. but didn't like it There should be a more robust solution..
@esra_erimez7 ай бұрын
This video about home directories is interesting and informative. No, I'm not a bot... or, am I?
@user-pg5sz2vn1w7 ай бұрын
i too am not a bot that is interested in linux home directories.
@jeffreypohlmeyer87827 ай бұрын
Click-bait title. If you seriously believe this is "The Ultimate Linux Hack" you've got a lot to learn. Nice presentation, though.
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
Here's a guy who's never been on KZbin before. But thanks,
@august21087 ай бұрын
and you can get rid of capital letters also documents not Documents !!
@bigpod7 ай бұрын
honestly thats just way to much work for what can essentially be solved with not using -a with ls you basically go i hate seeing dotfiles while going out of your way to see dotfiles
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
I don't use ls
@bigpod7 ай бұрын
@@TheLinuxCast why would any software default to show hidden directories thats so bad
@CandyCaneChris7 ай бұрын
You shouldn't alias a built-in command imo. Would have saved trouble to alias as 'cdh' for example. Aliasing over a built-in command is a recipe for issues and incompatibility between systems.
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
If you noticed I said in text on screen that I changed it.
@CandyCaneChris7 ай бұрын
Commented too soon haha. You mentioned this right after I unpaused. Sorry!
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
No worries.@@CandyCaneChris
@esra_erimez7 ай бұрын
Oh dear, Matt I think this may be a little too **** retentive for me.
@itsfish86727 ай бұрын
GVM.
@al12347 ай бұрын
Why don't you just soft link to your mhome and not make actual new directories?
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
Links can be broken
@uuu123437 ай бұрын
This seems more like a hack though, like you are just putting things from left to right hand
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
I mean, hack is right in the title.
@lilamdahal61197 ай бұрын
I wonder what ~ looks like in MacOS. Where are their .zshrc, .ssh, .mozilla, etc.?
@KDGNOR6 ай бұрын
look at man ln and ln -s
@TheDrunkenAlcoholic7 ай бұрын
do you even symlink bro? lol but seriously....
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
Links break.
@paulw44877 ай бұрын
Or just unalias ls 😂
@TheLinuxCast7 ай бұрын
I don't use ls, and I *want* to see the hidden files that are supposed to be there.
@terminalvelocity48587 ай бұрын
...
@damnhatesyou7 ай бұрын
I never understood this. It’s just a computer don’t care so much. Go outside and touch grass.
@spamcolector7 ай бұрын
the purpose of that channel is to share knowledge of specific areas. so if you not interested in that type of content just go away and touch whatever you want.
@damnhatesyou7 ай бұрын
@@spamcolector like I get having an interest in computers and doing some customisation but where does it end? It’s unhealthy it’s just a bunch of file that are meant to be hidden hence the . Infront of there names.
@bbajr7 ай бұрын
thanks. i was thinking the same. this just adds too much complexity for a bit of cleanliness. just exclude -a from ls. who watches dotfiles everytime they ls?
@ManiacalMoogle7 ай бұрын
@@damnhatesyou The fact that you spent time to comment on this defeats your entire argument and makes it look like YOU are indeed the person needing to touch grass..
@elmariachi51337 ай бұрын
You don't know DirectoryOpus, which makes your mistake about the best file manager forgiveable xD PS: Why don't you do: ln -s ~/.config ~/mhome/.config