I wish every OS had a space that is only and truly my space. No predefined directories, no config files that I did not put there myself, and no app should ever create files or directories there.
I settled a very long time ago to organize all my own data into projects under /proj and an alias `cdp` for `cd /proj`. That was what decades ago my colleagues were doing, and it has worked well for me ever since.
I appreciate the[1] home dir as a place for config files mostly and despise it for having become the system's junkyard otherwise.
[1] I'm hesitant to say 'my' because since everyone seems to put all their junk there, it does not feel like it is mine at all.
I would say that ~/Documents is pretty good here. The only trouble I have had is it being the default save location of some apps. But I haven't had something yet write there without any explicit action.
I settled a very long time ago to organize all my own data into projects under /proj and an alias `cdp` for `cd /proj`. That was what decades ago my colleagues were doing, and it has worked well for me ever since.
I appreciate the[1] home dir as a place for config files mostly and despise it for having become the system's junkyard otherwise.
[1] I'm hesitant to say 'my' because since everyone seems to put all their junk there, it does not feel like it is mine at all.