Comment by regularfry 16 days ago If I symlink ~/.ssh -> ~/.config/ssh, I still have .ssh in my ~. Whereas if I rewrite it, I don't. 11 comments regularfry Reply hvenev 16 days ago Will you not have `~/.ssh`? If you have `.ssh .config/ssh` as a rewrite rule, `stat ~/.ssh` will still find it. txtsd 16 days ago The point is to have a clean home directory. jl6 16 days ago Abandon hope.I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /. 2 replies → trollbridge 15 days ago You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is). ComputerGuru 15 days ago On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag. 3 replies → Joker_vD 15 days ago That ship has sailed 30 years ago.
hvenev 16 days ago Will you not have `~/.ssh`? If you have `.ssh .config/ssh` as a rewrite rule, `stat ~/.ssh` will still find it. txtsd 16 days ago The point is to have a clean home directory. jl6 16 days ago Abandon hope.I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /. 2 replies → trollbridge 15 days ago You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is). ComputerGuru 15 days ago On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag. 3 replies → Joker_vD 15 days ago That ship has sailed 30 years ago.
txtsd 16 days ago The point is to have a clean home directory. jl6 16 days ago Abandon hope.I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /. 2 replies → trollbridge 15 days ago You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is). ComputerGuru 15 days ago On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag. 3 replies → Joker_vD 15 days ago That ship has sailed 30 years ago.
jl6 16 days ago Abandon hope.I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /. 2 replies →
trollbridge 15 days ago You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is).
ComputerGuru 15 days ago On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag. 3 replies →
Will you not have `~/.ssh`? If you have `.ssh .config/ssh` as a rewrite rule, `stat ~/.ssh` will still find it.
The point is to have a clean home directory.
Abandon hope.
I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /.
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You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is).
On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag.
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That ship has sailed 30 years ago.