It may look like a small addition, but standardizing something many Linux users already do can improve workflows, application behavior, and even documentation over time.

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The xdg-user-dirs 0.20 release introduces a new standard 'Projects' directory in the Linux home folder, alongside the existing Documents, Pictures, Videos, and Downloads folders. This change, originally requested in 2014, aims to give users and applications a predictable location for project files such as code repositories and CAD designs. Beyond organization, it enables IDEs and build tools to default to a common workspace, simplifies Flatpak permission grants, and allows backup tools to treat Projects as a meaningful data category. GLib support is planned to let desktops and Flatpak apps take full advantage of the new directory.

Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

Projects directory for your ...well...projects

Why it is more than 'just another directory'

I’ve never used the “Documents”, “Music”… folders, and now “Projects” are added. I don’t understand why there are junk directories in a clean OS 🤷. Okay, in Windows, users might have trouble creating a directory.

All the hate is weird, it’s just a convenient new default. If you don’t like it change it, it’s Linux bro.
And for everyone like me who already have a /project folder it’s already there for you.
I install and manage Linux for the elderly and this will not affect the peak of Normy society.

I already have a “~/Projects” folder on every install

wow i hate it. this assumes too much. and i dislike capitalized folder names

why the Project folders icon is different than the rest?