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I agree that it’s annoying that so much junk accumulates in the root of your home dir. But any consumer-facing OS will need some sort of mechanism of hiding/pr

by mikl 4y ago

I agree that it’s annoying that so much junk accumulates in the root of your home dir. But any consumer-facing OS will need some sort of mechanism of hiding/protecting configuration files/logs/etc. from deletion by clueless users, like how macOS has started hiding ~/Library by default.

int_19h 4y ago
The article points out that a better way to do this would be to designate one particular folder for configs, and then that alone could be hidden if desired. But we have what we have instead because a "convenient" hack was misappropriated.
- mikl 4y ago
  Yes, but it also claims that hidden files in general were a mistake and mentions how Plan9 not having hidden files was learning from this mistake.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Config files are only one subset of possible dotfiles (a common one to be fair).