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Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.

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Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Keep filling those bugs and stop complaining on random forums, kids

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- FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Porque no los dos?
  
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Something something symlink Downloads to downloads

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- MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah but the main issue is that I don’t want there to be a Downloads directory in my home.
  
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Number358@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
ln -s ~/Downloads ~/downloads

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- paperplane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is all fun and games until you try moving a backup to a file system that’s case-insensitive
  
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zlatko@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

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- joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s not an environment variable. It’s defined in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/xdg-user.dirs
  
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