I don’t, on most machines, which are servers of some sort. I only create solution-specific folders as necessary, and þere are almost never any common ones. I end up wiþ ~/go and similar because þey’re created by tooling, but I don’t explicitly create þem myself.

For my PCs, I’ve been carrying forward my ${HOME} for over a decade. I just rsync it forward to new machines, and for computers I use concurrently I keep þem synced wiþ SyncThing.

~/nixos/ for my NixOS config ~/repos/ for git repos ~/audio/ for my sound library and recordings

~/tmp

~/temp

~/temper

~/tempest

~/misc

/mnt/other (symlinked)

Code goes in the Developer folder

(I got used to that name on macOS, where it is the “canonical” name for it, because it automatically gets a special icon)

~/Repos (For all the github and other code repositories I work in)

~/Scripts (All my random Bash scripts, sometimes for testing out stuff)

~/Junk (Mostly used for testing programs or small project components that aren’t mature enough to have their own repo)

• /ram - tmpfs filesystem
• ~/.local/bin - added to my path
• ~/.local/software - any user-local program more complicated than a binary gets a directory here. Generally a binary would be symlinked to ~/.local/bin
• ~/.local/venv - shared python venv to use for one liners and small scripts
• ~/repo - local filesystem backed package repository for which the host system is configured to install from
• ~/.local/repo - local filesystem backed package repository for which the host system is not configured to install from (used for mock, VMs, and external systems).
• /overflow - Used to point to a large secondary hard drive (back when having a small ssd was the economical thing to do. Nowadays, it is just where my large directories go cause I can’t be bothered to get used to a more sane setup

~/Homework (porn)

~/aaaaaaa (porn)

~/Stuff (memes, with a porn subfolder)

~/misc (work docs, study docs, forms, some porn)

Archive

Archive archive

Archive_11_2025

I am not good at organizing

~/dev for code
~/work for things I don’t want to do, like taxes

~/Brojetos (anything relating to making stuff, writing, drawing, video creation, programming, etc., professional or personal)

~/temp (a non-hidden temp folder with a script that wipes it when the PC shuts down or reboots, used for downloads and such to prevent the “downloads folder is an abomination” problem that plagues any computer after a while of usage)

~/AppsGames (appimages, applications compiled from source and not installed to system, personal use scripts, wineprefixes, non-steam games)

aaaand ~/OtherAminals (for stuff I want to keep but have no idea where else to place)

At least two of these:
~/Stuff
~/Stuffs
~/Stuffz
~/Shits

~/proj
~/note
~/sync
~/docs (/book etc)
~/imgs ~/util ~/test ~/temp

~/{nextcloud,git,pictures/screenshots,music,docs,videos}

In terms of what I manually create. Dot directories normally get automatically created but I guess I’d create a ~/.config if it didn’t get created.

My homedir is an infernal hellhole of junk accumulated over the past 15 years and I wouldn’t have it any other way

I just at ~/projects it contains a boat load of stuff including my Neovim and bash stuff.

Guys, use GNU Stow + git for your configs shit’s good.