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eadmund on Aug 12, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt fi...

    man 5 user-dirs.dirs

I hate the default directory names, and like you I hate the capitalisation — fortunately they can be overridden.

makapuf on Aug 12, 2025 [–]

Thanks. But then, starting discussion, what would be a sensible directory choice? downloads, backups ? Nothing?

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