A fresh Ubuntu (16.04.3) installation comes with a home directory ~/ that is filled with the following default folders:
- Music
- Videos
- Pictures
- Documents
- Templates
- ...
From another post, I know that the ~/Templates
folder has a special functionality (adding template documents to it will allow you to use these templates when doing right-click, new document
anywhere).
The furthermore present ~/Desktop
, ~/Public
and ~/Downloads
directory functionalities are more obvious.
However, about the other directories (~/Documents
, ~/Music
, ~/Videos
, ~/Pictures
), I was wondering whether any of those also has a special functionality - or whether it is fine/sensible to just delete them?
./bin
folder, it is added to the PATH variable, so you can call scripts/programs in there without specifying a path. And./public_html
is by default used by apache (maybe other webservers as well), if users are allowed to publish their own content. – ridgy Jan 07 '18 at 17:19