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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?

S.A.
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  • An example would be what file or folder exactly – George Udosen Jan 07 '18 at 12:47
  • @GeorgeUdosen, I clarified the question with an edit. – S.A. Jan 07 '18 at 13:40
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    One special functionality is that the names of these directories can be translated [automatically] to another language, if you install another language and set your system to use it. Some application programs use these programs as targets (for example for created or downloaded files). – sudodus Jan 07 '18 at 14:12
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    There are two additional folders with special meaning: If there is a ./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

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