$HOME/.local and $HOME/.config use is increasingly popular, many apps already search these locations in addition to the usual $HOME/.emacs.d/ etc. I use those l

$HOME/.local and $HOME/.config use is increasingly popular, many apps already search these locations in addition to the usual $HOME/.emacs.d/ etc. I use those locations for my stuff, too. My `ls` is an alias that, among other things, has `-al` in it. It a good default IMO (to each their own), but it means I always see the mess of dotfiles in $HOME. On a system 4 months old, so with only a fraction of what I accrued for years on the previous install, I get these: .Xdefaults@ .apl.history .awesome-client_history .bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc .boto .calc_history .condarc .croissant_history .dircolors@ .dotty_history .erlang.cookie .fasd .fzf.zsh@ .gitconfig@ .gtkrc-2.0 .haxelib .inputrc@ .irb_history .jhistory .kotlinc_history .kshell_history .lesshst .luajit_history .mergerc .nano-recentf .nano-savehist .ocaml_history .pdbhistory .profile .psql_history .python_history .python_history-81386.tmp .racketrc@ .sbclrc@ .scala_history_jline3 .sqlite_history .steampath@ .steampid@ .tmux.conf@ .units_history .viminfo .wezterm.lua .wget-hsts .xbindkeysrc@ .xsession@ .zcompdump .zlogout@ .zshenv .zshrc@ I have another alias, `l`, that doesn't do `-l`, which was what I used to get the list ↑. It almost makes the contents of the home dir visible on one "page" of fullscreen terminal emulator (using multiple columns)... Even though I have just a handful of directories and just a few non-dotfiles there. It's Sparta, all the way, especially since many of these are already symlinks to a more centralized location...