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[–] 95 points 2 years ago (12 children)

The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    ah so like every fucking game and it's save files for some reason?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    That's why i prefer to use Wine for games. Just change the symlinks in C:/users/ to somewhere sane, like .local/Games//save. Guess you could also use the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs while creating the prefix, but i haven't tested that yet.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I haven't run into a game that does this πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    There’s no game related dirs in your My Documents dir? Most don’t even use My Games they just dump directly into My Documents. I guarantee most game devs don’t understand the difference between local and roaming either. They just put shit randomly wherever they want

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oh, on Windows, sure. Not on Linux though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Linux is just as bad. You actually got anything in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or is your /home just a dot file dumping ground?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    lol, this almost reads as a personal attack.

    I have almost nothing in my home directory, no. Been applying this to clean it up even further. I want my chezmoi dotfiles repo to be clean. Especially not games' files since I run Steam through flatpak. It does put things in ~/.var but at least it's collected to one point.

    Not really a problem of "Linux" or "Windows", but more of "developers".

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