The one thing stopping me from having a "work profile" "private profile" etc, is the permissions.
I could hardlink folders from one user to another, but then there would be permission issues.
I could do a chown -r /home/user/Work but every newly created file would again belong to "work" and I couldnt edit it with "private" for example.
Libreoffice also doesnt like any permission issues and will only open a copy in those cases.
Would I need an autostart script using pkexec, or a systemd service to always make both users recursively owners of these directories? Is there a better way?
Btw, I use Fedora Kinoite (KDE) and moving things from one user to another takes very long, unlike moving withing the same user. It seems as if it would really change the file location, not just the pointer, but I am no BTRFS expert at all.
I don't think you could, afaik hardlinks are only allowed for files. You might be able to something similar with a bind mount though.
Personally I keep those kind of folders outside a single user's home dir. On one computer I have /home/Shared (not a real user, I just put the folder there… no idea if it's a bad idea, but noone else is going to be creating users on that computer anyway).