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To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This isn't really accurate for either side. For Linux, I've had crap shove configs in ~, /etc, /var, at least.

On Windows, it could be literally anywhere or in the registry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's one thing I especially like about Flatpaks on the Linux side. Everything's in ~/.var.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Which unfortunately also don't follow xdg-dir specification...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Or ~/.local/share/${software_name_or_whatever}... Or ~/.${software_name_or_whatever}/

Oof

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i love apps which don't follow the XDG Base Directory spec 🥰🥰

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Which one is your favorate, mine is ~/freedroid/. 😝

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If you have flatpak, and the application don't need full user home access, then you can move the folder to application sandbox by setting a persistent path.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Or ~/.config/software_name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Being the 'correct one' makes it easy to skip over... thx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The idea of the registry is so freaking nice. Imagine if all the configs of a system could be changed through a centralized and consistent API.