diff --git a/electron/start-app.ts b/electron/start-app.ts
index 812b2f3177..798f69fffa 100644
--- a/electron/start-app.ts
+++ b/electron/start-app.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { evaluateGpuStartupGuard } from './gpu-startup-guard';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 
 const ICONS_FOLDER = __dirname + '/assets/icons/';
+const APP_DISPLAY_NAME = 'Super Productivity';
 const IS_MAC = process.platform === 'darwin';
 // const DESKTOP_ENV = process.env.DESKTOP_SESSION;
 // const IS_GNOME = DESKTOP_ENV === 'gnome' || DESKTOP_ENV === 'gnome-xorg';
@@ -152,6 +153,14 @@ export const startApp = (): void => {
     app.setAppLogsPath();
   }
 
+  if (process.platform === 'linux') {
+    // Preserve the historical userData path based on package.json `name`, while
+    // exposing a human-readable app name to Linux desktop environments.
+    const userDataPath = app.getPath('userData');
+    app.setPath('userData', userDataPath);
+    app.setName(APP_DISPLAY_NAME);
+  }
+
   // Defense-in-depth against GPU init failures on confined Linux packages
   // (Snap Mesa ABI drift, missing DRI nodes under Flatpak, etc.) where the
   // main process stays alive but the GPU process crashes at init and the