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So much this. It's like these clowns don't read the XDG directory spec and think
$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEand$XDG_DATA_HOMEare interchangeable, and even that cache files can be in either or both. No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.I'm not a fan of
~/.local/share/being the data directory (two directories deep seems stupid), but it's definitely where regular data belongs.Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a
$HOMEdotfile/dotdir or - somehow worse - those who put$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<weird-name>/subdir/[subdir/]. The latter strikes me as well-meaning Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does, but it makes my teeth itch.Rant over. :)
This is why so many people have a separate git repository for their config files and a scripts that symlinks or copies those files into the actual
~/.config.I think the best practices on Windows are pretty similar to Linux, other than Windows usually using title case whereas Linux usually using lowercase. There's bad developers on both platforms :)
Windows equivalent to XDG_CONFIG_DIR is %appdata%, which is the roaming AppData directory.