2022 was the year I finally joined one of these great religions that forbiddens one to use ~/Desktop. Actually this religion states that everything local should be on a NAS and then mounted. For not loosing any data, ya know? 
So anyways my questions are has follow: in this never ending quest for system configuration perfection there is a file called ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs which contains :
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/runtime-root"
#XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
#XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
I understand that if I am not using ~/Public I can rm ~/Public and then should technically comment it away from this file. Or perhaps remove the line. I also understand that not doing so will result in the dir being recreated after reboot.
So:
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If I already replaced all of my home folders for a symlink pointing to the NAS, do I need to keep this file? Can I just purge it and never care again? If purged, will it ever get recreated after a distribution upgrade for example? etc
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Considering
~/Documentsis now a symlink pointing to asshfsmount what is the implication of keeping this file? Anything? -
Bonus question: does anybody run this kind of setup right now and has tips to share in order to facilitate the overall UM integration?
Currently am on 22.10.