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Is there any way to make programs create their own folders ".program_name" not in the home directory, but in some AppData directory?
I do not want to hide hidden files, but at the same time I do not want to see this huge bunch of system folders in my home directory.

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    It would seem to require a change to 25+ -year-old Debian standards. Please elaborate on why your preference for seeing every hidden file in /home. --yet not wanting to see every file-- is worth this change.
    – user535733
    Jul 6, 2018 at 19:05

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No. Well it is actually yes but you will need to recompile all the software you want this applied to.

Easier option is to flip your problem and approach it differently: why use /home/ for personal data? You can practically sym link anything in your /home/$USER/ to another location. I myself opted to change the directories to a partition /discworld/. It looks like this:

rinzwind@schijfwereld:~$ cd /discworld/
rinzwind@schijfwereld:/discworld$ ls -a

 .
 ..                                           
 Public
 Desktop                                            
 Templates
 Documents                                         
 Downloads                                          
 user-dirs.dirs
 Videos
 Music               
 Pictures
 .Trash-1000

I never use /home/ so never see anything added to /home/ (my / and /home are also on an ssd, and /discworld is a hdd).

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  • In fact, that's exactly what I was thinking, but I would like to be able to use the alias "~" to my real_home_directory.
    – Андрей Солодовников
    Jul 6, 2018 at 19:14
  • You could create a function to redirect the tilde to that new location but yeah, that is annoying indeed :D Hmm.
    – Rinzwind
    Jul 6, 2018 at 19:54

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