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Esoteric setups aside, I'd be interested to hear about problems that people actually have encountered with this convention.
by bauerd 8y ago
Esoteric setups aside, I'd be interested to hear about problems that people actually have encountered with this convention.
- tempay 8y agoMy partner has to manage having a 500MB quota on their home directory at work. A couple of times a month something decides to dump 300+ MB of data in there and break everything.
- otterley 8y agoA 300MB file isn't a preferences file, though.
- SmirkingRevenge 8y agoApps use dotfiles or dotdirs for caching data. Think browser caches. That's the point of the standard... All the non essential caching data lives in one place and so is easy to prune when needed.