Just give me ~/etc/
Attention electron developers: under no circumstances do I want your entire app in .config.
You feel the curling of the monkey’s paw; the entire app is now in ~/.local/AppName
Use xdg-ninja to help clear out unwanted files not in your home folder, and give tips to move them into a normal folder like .config
but please don’t hard-code
~/.configor$HOME/.config. Use theXDG_CONFIG_HOMEenvironment variable, with$HOME/.configas a fallback if it’s not set.Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)Laughs in NixOS
Nixos still slaps your home route with a bunch of . Files
Yes, but I never have to look at them





