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Setting up a home directory

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Your home directory is the place where you keep your own files. Good organizational skills and some foresight will help keep your "home" in order. Here are some hints for organizing your home directory.

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For what its worth here my thoughts on the matter.

I HATE DOT FILES. (sorry, needed to get that out...)

I know tools like ls hide files starting with a dot, but I still know they are there messing up my home dir.

ls -ld .* | wc -l 249

nearly 250 files or dirs messing up my home dir. I would much rather have one dir (eg ~/etc/kde) and have programmes put their stuff there.

Anything I write will use ~/etc// I know this is not standard, and will probably annoy others for that. It also conflicts with the articles use.

On a more calmer note... In some networks I been on, there isn't just one OS so instead of ~/bin, ~/lib, etc I have ~/usr.`uname -s`/bin (using bash ``) eg ~/usr.Linux/bin ~/usr.Linux/lib

my normal files are sorted into grouped dirs, rarely rooted at ~/ eg ~/html/public/ instead of ~/public_html, where do i put non public stuff? or ~/c/gtk/project/incarnation/ a gtk app thats written in c (not useful for bigger projects i know)

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