Drag has one thing on the desktop.
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I found this a few months ago and after adapting it to my needs I now have my files heavily organized (makes backups much easier).
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I love GNOME for this. No desktop icons. Windows/super key, type the first letter or two, boom. It's so pretty.
My phone on the other hand? The first screen is nicely arranged. The second screen is just a chronological list of the apps I've downloaded, because they automatically go to desktop, and they'll clutter up my home screen if I don't have a separate sacrificial screen for them
Same. I hate desktop clutter. The horrors I've seen when I've been on someone else's PC. Random desktop documents that haven't been touched in 5 years. Why?!
Even aside from looking ugly, it's not even a good place for apps/files! If you have a window or two open, everything is obscured and you have to move windows out of the way to access your stuff.
They get a lot of shit for it, but IMO Gnome was 100% right to say "No. The desktop inevitably becomes a dumping ground and we don't want that. Your app menu is for apps and your Home folder is for files. We have very good search functionality to find what you want. No desktop icons. If you want that, install an extension."
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On Android it's similar... On some apps(all?) you can't save to the downloads folder. Like WTF? Downloads is where temp stuff goes you damn green buffoon!
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The top of your desk is exactly where you want the document that you will need in a minute to go. Its what bosses demanded since before modern computing
If that is not the intended usecase, then what is?
In linux i am saving stuff in a related project folder which may aswell be that projects own desktop.
If the "shopping trolley test" determines good versus evil, then where you save your files determines lawful vs chaotic.
Lawful: specific files in specific places
Neutral: everything goes in downloads
Chaotic: everything goes on desktop
Lawful Good - Saved in specific places
Lawful Evil - Saved in recycle bin
Neutral Good - Saved in downloads
Neutral Evil - Saved in downloads or documents but you're not sure which one
Chaotic Good - Everything goes on desktop
Chaotic Evil - Everything goes into a random location
New alignment: Chaotic Lawful: I deleted my desktop folder to prevent me from cluttering the desktop
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My documents folder had 0 weeks until a few weeks ago. Everything in custom subfolders of home
The cursed Linux alternative of this is usually putting things directly in the home folder – I used to do this until I got better. Desktop is simple to keep clean when you don't have one in your "desktop environment" by default.
Some people who've used MacOs before OSX dump everything to the root filesystem out of habit. It works just as poorly as a file management strategy as one might expect, albeit better than putting everything on the desktop. Not sure how often that happens but I've known multiple people to do that.
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People who save files on the desktop deserve to use Windows.
These days, replace "Documents" and "Downloads" with "the root folder of OneDrive".
Yeah, that is so fucking annoying. I never save anything there, yet it absolutely always suggests that. Fucking microsoft.
This drives me mad. I work on multiple projects, how the fuck can I organise things of its all in one folder! The interface to select a different folder is like 3 clicks away too.
I absolutely do it the other way. Nothing is on my desktop except for the trash bin. There is a shortcut to the file explorer and browser pinned to the task bar. And that's it.
There is nothing at all on my desktop except for a text document created by my girlfriend saying that she loves me that she snuck on there when I wasn’t looking.
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i don't even have icons enabled on my desktop. Now I don't have to feel stressed about cleaning it up
Ah, a person of culture! Though I admit everything that I regularly use is pinned to the taskbar.
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Everything downloads to the desktop, that way it's in my face so I have to deal with it.
The clutter on the desktop annoys me into cleaning it up, but I'll ignore a downloads folder once I've grabbed whatever I just downloaded.
But... You can just download things to their deserved spot in the first place?? Why the extra step
Desktop is my temp space. There are files with a very limited shelf live (logs I downloaded to search something, screenshots, ...) so I have to clean them up on a regular base before my desktop becomes too crowded and I get annoyed.
A lot of stuff don't have a spot. And no, I'm not putting that meme template I will need for 5 minutes into the tmp folder, I'm not insane.
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you are the first person i’ve know to also do this! it really does help
I do this too. I do not like anything on my Desktop, but I download files to there, which forces me to deal with them. Interestingly enough, my Downloads directory is a barren wasteland.
I would expect nothing less from a filthy outlook user
Id just like to add that whoever started sending game files to the hidden part of documents should be shot. How hard is it to just make a Games folder and a Games Save folder?
You mean /Users/username/AppData? The folder where all applications store their user-specific data?
I don't mind the location; but it's annoying being hidden by default. Trying to direct people to it can be a pain sometimes.
(though 'run' > '%appdata%' usually works)
Hurrdurr aCHully
Steam games need to store save files in the same library location as the game, using a sub folder that maps to the steam account name. Stop filling up the app data folder for the operating system account that is running steam. My C drive is full, go away.
My steam games are all installed on an external SSD so I can put those distractions out of reach. I can't imagine ever going back.
Also, Windows doesn't allow writing to files to in Program folders... So let's put everything that needs RAM into that directory! But not the save files, those are hidden 7 layes deep in MyAss/hidden/hidden/almost there/hidden/docs/maybe save files.
Tf...no...
Everything is saved to the Syncthing folder. I make sure there is a shortcut to it in the sidebar. From there, it gets placed in the proper folder inside of that.
Good god. Putting stuff in the desktop is a big yuck. Your desktop probably looks like your room.
If a cluttered desktop is a sign of a cluttered mind, what does an empty one signify?
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The desktop is like the inbox of files, inbox-zero it and it's a tidy place to keep things in focus until they're sorted and filed away or deleted.
Right. Why have an easy to locate area to quickly access temporary files, amiright?
Can confirm.
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Least cluttered Windows Desktop:
Man, zooming in and looking at these icons was like a blast from the (not too far) past.
Pffff, if you don't attach to the grid you got way more space for files.
Can you sort this by penis? Internet Explorer needs to be at the tip or I won't be able to find it.
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