https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZ_HnqkJoo

would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?

You can do both, and both are easy.

The user-dirs.dirs file contains something like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

For example if you mount the disk in /media/dirname, it would be something like this, I’m giving it a external-drive name in this example:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/media/external-drive/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/external-drive/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/external-drive/Downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/external-drive/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/media/external-drive/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="/media/external-drive/Public"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="/media/external-drive/Templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/external-drive/Videos"

And for the symlinks, if the drive already has the Desktop, Documents, etc directories. It is as simple as this:

ln -s /media/external-drive/* $HOME

That will symlink all the files in the drive to your $HOME

I suggest you do both because you might run into a program that doesn’t follow XDG user directories.

If you want my answer, this video sums it up pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qCqRTEVz0

More recently fedora pulled this move which causes headaches to everyone: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/issues/661

To this day I notice that there is some skepticism with Btrfs, and I think it is because fedora also pushed it early.

Btrfs snapshots made me stop using ext4 all together.

Folders? you mean directories 👀

Mount the disk (if you ask me at /media/nameofdir) and configure ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs (99% of that time that would be the .config dir in your home lol) and define each XDG_***_DIR= to the respective directory in the path of the mounted disk, no need to make symlinks, though you might need to because there is likely many apps that don’t follow xdg specs.

I would really appreciate a GUI way

I know gnome-disks has a GUI way to change the mount options, I don’t know how good it is though.

Introducing openSUSA

A month ago or so to be able to use zramen without root password.

I have /tmp in my fstab with these mount options.

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,noatime,size=20G 0 0

And the rest of the setup is done in my zprofile

It’s empty lol, it’s a directory on tmpfs that i use to build programs and similar stuff to not be hammering my ssd with unnecessary writes.

I have $XDG_CACHE_HOME in tmp as well and I moved the mesa sharer caches to $XDG_STATE_HOME as that’s really the only thing so far I’ve needed to preserve.

thunar (and the smaller window is the xfce4-terminal).

zsh is actually easy and it is detailed in the archwiki

You have to set $ZDOTDIR in /etc/zsh/zshenv and iirc that was the only location that required root to edit.

For the rest of stuff, here is how I fix steam for example and you can check the rest of my dotfiles for how I configured zsh and all of that.

Although I haven’t updated them, I still had a .local directory back then, it was 1 week ago that I changed .local for Local and that let to an issue with distrobox which I made a PR fixing it that’s still open though.

ls -A | grep "^\."

I had to make a dummy .dotfile to test because I don’t have hidden files in my home.

Shameless flex

Speaking of doas, is there any advantage of using it when… sudo is still available to be used?

I like that its configuration file is very very simple.

Thank you for posting this @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net

I will later see if I can convince the gearlever dev to add aisap support, since that app targets flatpak users.

Also during testing Ivan discovered something interesting in fedora, sometimes some of the xdg-user-dirs variable for some reason were being defined as $HOME/ with a trailing slash instead of $HOME/Scrivania (desktop) for example, even though they were clearly defined in the conf file of xdg-user-dirs.

am has a check in the sandbox script that unsets these variables and makes aisap use their default location when that happens to prevent giving full access to $HOME, I don’t know if flatpak has similar measures in place.

Yeah I meant this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin

Alpine still keeps /bin and /usr/bin separated.

And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.

https://github.com/mgord9518/aisap/blob/main/profiles/profile_database.json

Very interesting tool. So this is for appimages but also binaries?

Anything portable.

Thats not a sandbox, its a nice wrapper for firejail,

aisap uses bwrap it is mentioned in both links I gave you.

appman used to have firejail sandbox but it was dropped in favor of aisap because of that.

Are all Appimages using that, if not what percentage of the ones you know?

Usually if the appimage has a github release with a zsync you have that verification.

And are tools like Gearlever enforcing or using that signature check?

I don’t use gearlever, as far as I know gearlever doesn’t even let you sandbox the appimage like AM does. I don’t think any of those forces signature verification besides AppImageUpdateTool and that’s because that’s part of the zsync update process.