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In a way a users settings are ‘personal files’, so it can be argued they go in home.
Except isn't there a specific directory for such things now in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME? Or is this not standard at all? Either way, $HOME/.config makes perfect sense to me!
To me, the real problem is not the dotfiles, but the regular (i.e. non-hidden) files that applications surreptitiously create in my home folder. (Which the author does mention as being particularly bad.) dotfiles in the home folder are not a new thing on Linux (e.g. .bashrc, .profile, .emacs, etc.), even if it would be better if more applications used the XDG folders. And if I don't see them when I "ls", they don't b…
I don't know how I did this.
This isn't just a Linux problem. In Windows, the users /documents folder is polluted in exactly the same way these days.
Also on macOS, where [~]/Library/ApplicationSupport is the designed and recommended place to store config files, logs, preferences and all kinds of persistent data, the home directory still gets cluttered. It's a laziness issue, it won't be solved solely by making is easier to access the right locations on each system/platform, but that would be a step in the right direction.
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Also on macOS, where [~]/Library/ApplicationSupport is the designed and recommended place to store config files, logs, preferences and all kinds of persistent data, the home directory still gets cluttered. It's a laziness issue, it won't be solved solely by making is easier to access the right locations on each system/platform, but that would be a step in the right direction.
I would honestly like to blacklist my home folder. Do you want to create a new file/folder? I am notified with a popup and if you ask to often I am gonna stop using that. Not really workable but one can still dream...
That's why I never use $HOME for personal files. All of my files are in the Dropbox folder or another custom folder on my work PC. It's nonstandard, so no one litters in it besides me.
To me, the real problem is not the dotfiles, but the regular (i.e. non-hidden) files that applications surreptitiously create in my home folder. (Which the author does mention as being particularly bad.) dotfiles in the home folder are not a new thing on Linux (e.g. .bashrc, .profile, .emacs, etc.), even if it would be better if more applications used the XDG folders. And if I don't see them when I "ls", they don't b…
>And when people complain, the devs have the gall to suggest that this is all fine. You're complaining on a really high level and nobody suggested "this is fine". They suggested "wishlist" is fine according to their definition of "if it's not immediately broken and a fix is not trivial" If you have an issue with default folders that are quite normal in a modern desktop environment I suggest you move back to Arch or w…
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>And when people complain, the devs have the gall to suggest that this is all fine. You're complaining on a really high level and nobody suggested "this is fine". They suggested "wishlist" is fine according to their definition of "if it's not immediately broken and a fix is not trivial" If you have an issue with default folders that are quite normal in a modern desktop environment I suggest you move back to Arch or w…
Sorry I do not want a directory /Documents if /docs is what i want when i want it...