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I don't like the mess some software makes when it install in my system so I want to move it to a more appropriate place.
My questions are:
1- Where is the most appropriated directory for this? (some hidden folder made with this purpose, I thought linux had something like this as a standard)
2- How I move it without breaking anything?
I didn't like the capitalised names so configured xdg to use all lowercase letters. That's why
~/optfits in pretty nicely.You've got a point re
~/.local/optbut I personally like the idea of having the important bits right in my home dir. Here's my layout (which I'm quite used to now after all these years):where
binis just a bunch of symlinks to frequently used apps fromoptsrcis where i keep clones of repos (but I don't do work insrc)workspaceis a where I do my work on git worktrees (based offsrc)