I copy them to my home ~/Applications/ folder . much easier to access than an obscure folder that is hidden anyway. Why make things more complicated than they are?
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Good point. Hiding things in dot files has become a bit of an unnecessary obsession.
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This is the way I have always done it, making web apps and AppImages have their own space in hidden folders/ .local/share/applications. As they are scripts to run the virtual app. I use Xfce have AppImage launcher shortcut with their own dedicated icon that I made for them to go with my theming to xfce4-docklike-plugin.
Plus having the applications file hidden, means it isnât ruining the clean looking setup I have in Nemo. I hate Thunar so totally uninstall it and have Nemo as default.
I donât run Linux Mint like it was meant to be run. I use a low latency Kernel 6.19.8-2 Liquorix. Great for gaming here in Linux Mint 22.2 Zara. Getting same results, as if I was using Cachy OS.
Three years it took me to find the perfect desktop theme and icon theme. Sardi-Ghost-Flexible icon theme, as it has scripts to change itâs colour. (Iâm British I spell colour with a U) Orchis-Grey-Dark as my GTK theme. Works in every Linux environment. Pictures below of my desktop.
I delete all the nasty Linux Mint themes and their icon themes, as uninstalling them will muck the whole system up. I tell the update manager not to install any other Kernel, it does what it is told. I use my own wallpapers and delete the Linux Mint ones.
I use Davinci Resolve Studio 20.3 for video editing, through my NVIDIA 4060TI with 16GB of V-Ram. My build is RYZEN 5700x eight cores sixteen threads. 32GB of 3600Hertz of Ram. I use Icy Docks as well as two M.2 Drives. My processor is only 65watts and is more than enough for my needs here in Linux Mint. Photos are definitely below.
I use Brave-Origin as it is lighter than Brave-Browser. Plus here in Linux Land we donât have to pay for it. Still use Firefox for YouTube, as Firefox plays video better, but have Brave-Origin for uploading to YouTube, as it is extremely faster.
The first Pic is my top panel, that is transparent and has all my Web Apps on.
The second Pic has all my daily apps on from Firefox, Brave-Origin, Nemo, Xed Text Editor, xfce4-terminal, HandBrake, Clipgrab (which is a Deb File), Obs-Studio, Celluloid, Davinci-Resolve-Studio, Audacity, Gimp 3.2.4 (AppImage), Gcolor 2 (Gcolor 3 is horrendous), Inkscape, KMahjongg, PCSX2 (AppImage), Steam, ProtonUp (AppImage), Synaptic Package Manager and Thunderbird.
There is one more AppImage I use called DuckStation, for PlayStation one games, itâs an emulator. I turned all my favourite PlayStation one games into ISO files off their CDâs and am able to play them here in Linux through DuckStation. PCSX2 is a PlayStation two emulator and I turned my favourite PS2 games into ISO files and play them through PCSX2. I also record me playing them too, when I ainât working.
The majority of my time is spent having fun on my PC, as I ainât a programmer, but know my Linux, what works and what doesnât.
Linux Mint may not be cutting edge like Arch, but it is stable and I can run cutting edge software on here if I want to, but stability is my go to in my Linux Life.
Everything I chuck at Linux Mint 22.2 Xfce Edition, just works. It never gripes. Reminds me of Peppermint OS days when Mark Greaves was at the helm, everything just worked and it is that, that I know Iâm in for a good time every time I boot up my PC.
Whatever PC environment youâre in just enjoy it, have fun, get work done.
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Using the word âalwaysâ in a open source / linux is a red flag for me. I have been tampering with Linux S.u.s.e when it came as book with a CD attached. Nothing is the same. LinuxMINT didnât even exist back than.
Hidden folders for stuff that normal users need access to? If it was âalwaysâ done that way it has been done wrong always.
I have a very clean layout accept when I switch hidden files / folder on. Compare:
The number of hidden folders in my own user space has gone wild. This is bad design, and you know it. it would be so cool if we had a Linus Torvalds character at the helm of DE developement who would just shoot down every idea to add yet another configuration local share var cache folder to the users home and rightly so.
Itâs a wild west in OSS country. Which for developers is heaven but for people actually get work done just unnecessary cognitive load.
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I agree.
Most of the stuff in dot files belongs to the system, but is user - specific ⌠eg your browser settings.
It means the systsm has invaded your home directory ⌠so you can no longer backup you files easily or share them between two Linuxes.
Some dot files simply should not be hidden files at all ⌠as you point out. Best example of that is email ⌠.thunderbird mixes up configs with data ( your emails). How are you supposed to get a clean backup of emails? I would like my email folders in a directory of its own, as text files, of at least some common readable format.
My solution is to abandon home directirues to the system , and put my data elsewhere⌠I know , that is a capitulation, but at least my data is backupable and able to be shared between several Linuxes.
Dot files are a really ancient Unix convention. They were meant for simple things like .profile. They have been hijacked and overworked ⌠dont tell the systemd crowd this or they will take it over too.
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