some advice for clean personal folders
by linuxUser247 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#54SXE)
I am using nautilus and I have multiple hard drives.
The problem that I have with my "personal" folder is that it is full of unpersonal crap, like snap, Public and Templates. :mad: Also, it gets constantly polluted by software without asking for permission. :mad:
I want to have /home on my SSD and the media on my HDD. What I find repeatedly suggested is to create symlinks inside of $HOME that point to a data partition.
But, do I really have to use $HOME? How about using my symlinks on /mnt/home/$USER, to use in parallel to $HOME? (leaving $HOME for pollution, such as Dropbox or snap). This way I have my truly personal place on which I have full control over. I have never anyone suggesting this, it seems like everyone uses $HOME.
To integrate this with nautilus I'd make user-dirs.dirs point to my "other" personal folder. Most of the software, like Firefox, understand this modification. This also avoids nested mounts for my SSD / HDD division of $HOME, which is another benefit. To make it more clear, what I am suggesting is to create some personal folders, like "documents" and "projects" somewhere else, and integrate them conveniently in my Desktop Environment.
I found a commenter which made his $HOME readonly. This would most likely break some of my brain dead software I am relying on, though. I don't have the time and nerve to do this.
here are some of my references:
How can I stop Steam from polluting my home directory?
I'm tired of folders littering my home
Defending Home
Don't pollute user space
Bug report for snap in home
P.S.: I know that I can literally do anything I want on linux file system, but I am a little afraid of this much power.
P.P.S.: I really hope this goes through the spam filter with all these links!
The problem that I have with my "personal" folder is that it is full of unpersonal crap, like snap, Public and Templates. :mad: Also, it gets constantly polluted by software without asking for permission. :mad:
I want to have /home on my SSD and the media on my HDD. What I find repeatedly suggested is to create symlinks inside of $HOME that point to a data partition.
But, do I really have to use $HOME? How about using my symlinks on /mnt/home/$USER, to use in parallel to $HOME? (leaving $HOME for pollution, such as Dropbox or snap). This way I have my truly personal place on which I have full control over. I have never anyone suggesting this, it seems like everyone uses $HOME.
To integrate this with nautilus I'd make user-dirs.dirs point to my "other" personal folder. Most of the software, like Firefox, understand this modification. This also avoids nested mounts for my SSD / HDD division of $HOME, which is another benefit. To make it more clear, what I am suggesting is to create some personal folders, like "documents" and "projects" somewhere else, and integrate them conveniently in my Desktop Environment.
I found a commenter which made his $HOME readonly. This would most likely break some of my brain dead software I am relying on, though. I don't have the time and nerve to do this.
here are some of my references:
How can I stop Steam from polluting my home directory?
I'm tired of folders littering my home
Defending Home
Don't pollute user space
Bug report for snap in home
P.S.: I know that I can literally do anything I want on linux file system, but I am a little afraid of this much power.
P.P.S.: I really hope this goes through the spam filter with all these links!