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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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For real? Never used Android, but isn’t it built on Linux? It doesn’t use the same path /home/username/Downloads?
It does not, but on all of the Android devices I've used there's simply a "downloads" folder in the root location (or what is exposed to the user as root location, anyway) where downloads go by default. From web browsers, at least.
The problem is that where things are saved is more or less up to the developer of the app in question, and sometimes they make some very nonsensical choices. The app could create a folder for itself in root, or it could create a folder for itself in "documents," or it could simply park things in one of the preexisting userspace folders. Or it could bury the file it just created in /Android/data/com.appname.fd6bca3/files/0/dl/, and it sure as shit won't tell you nor give you the option to put it anywhere else.
Get a file explorer. Mine has a "recent" tab where all the new stuff is. I can also move or copy files easily. Vanilla explorer is not very good but it does have the basics covered. It is annoying not to have a system-wide download dialog though.
I suspect part of why google's app is subpar is to promote their cloud storage.
I use Root Explorer.
A shocking number of Android devices ship without a file browser installed from the vendor at all. If you want one you have to install it yourself. This is baffling to me.
That's fucked, the more android progresses the less usable it becomes it seems. Even budget 2.3 phones had it built-in afaik
It's built on a , by now very modified and incompatible, Linux kernel. But not a GNU userland at all.
Yeah, fuck Android. PostmarketOS is my new best friend.
Which is also forked again by various phone manufacturers that make their own modifications on top of it.
Don't know what this meme is about.
Everything I download is in my downloads folder. Good luck finding the downloads folder path in IOS.
That was a problem for years. Apple didn’t make the Files app to navigate the filesystem until 2017. It’s fine now, but it was absurd for sure.
It's basically a jvm that runs on the Linux kernel.
Same as what? That isn't a default path for anything in Linux either. It's a convention that browser follows though, on Windows and Mac too.