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Hehe, glad I helped:)

can you say more about how you are using symlinks

I havan't yet used a lot of symlinking, but some of the stuff I do is:

1. If you can see the dirlist, in ~/root/Imports-Exports/Bottles I have the bottles dir which contains 2 subdirs, Bottles-Apps and Bottles-Games. They are symlinks, pointing to bottles of apps (at ~/root/Software/Applications/Linux/Bottles-Apps) and games (at ~/root/Games/Video/Computer/linux/Bottles-Games) respectively (bottles are wine prefixes that the app "Bottles" creates to run windows programs).

2. This one is again about windows games. I have the program files and data in 2 separate folder under ~/root/Games/Video/Computer/windows/GameX (where GameX represents a given game) and I symlink them inside the respective bottle dirs (2 of the games I have use the default Documents dir for saving the game data and because I dont have bottles isolated from the rest of the userspace, I symlinked the game data in ~/Documents).

3. Because nixos uses symlinks for its app shortcuts, simply dragging app icons on the desktop doesnt work (it creates symlinks to the version of the app at this time). Thus, I have to go to nixos's folder with shortcuts to my apps (which gets updated after update) and symlink each shortcut to my desktop.

4. Another use for symlinks is to keep my dotfiles git versioned and sycned with codeberg, for which I'll have to use gnu stow, but I still haven't done this (my git knowledges are veery limited).

You can do fun stuff, just be careful when copying/deleting/syncing symlinks, not to mess up anything (app tend to warn you if you want to follow the symlink (which affects the targeted file instead of the symlink) or not). They help to keep things tidy, but can get messy with improper use:)