Did you know most file managers on Linux support a ".hidden" file in your home directory?
It works pretty much as gitignore does: it hides everything that you list in this file, one file/dir per line.
https://fosspost.org/tutorials/hide-files-folders-linux-file-manager
@fribbledom I'm a hard core linux user and this is actually news to me. Though they failed to mention if it worked like dot files in the shell itself, which would be the most important for me as I dont often use graphical fiel managers.