There are two Linux paradigms that I consider stupid. One is the use of centralized software repositories managed by the distro instead of individual developer maintained installers. The other one is file system case sensibility. They already admitted defeat on the first one with the rise of containerised applications. I wonder how much longer they'll keep the charade on the second one.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I have a third one for you. Not being able to pick where things install. Everything installs to the os disk. Terrible idea.

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[–] TetrisIQ@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

You can also disable case sensivity in bash

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[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

cd dow *tab

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Just make a downloads folder if you absolutely want to go there

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[–] steltek@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's how to fix this[+]

Create $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs with

XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"

You may need to logout/in for things to reread this file.

The full list of keys is:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR
XDG_MUSIC_DIR
XDG_PICTURES_DIR
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR

+: Since this is Linux, this is a fix for many but not all cases.

[–] lastweakness@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

XDG User dirs are cool, i agree. But that's not really the problem here

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don't even have to cd when using completion with fish/zsh. Just type

down[tab]

[–] Uncle_Iroh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because you need to cd "path to directory" not cd "name" lol

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[–] lfromanini@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

Zoxide and cd down. ;)

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or use a nicer alternative like zoxide! :)

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