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I feel no standards for config files is probably the biggest reason app containers got traction with advanced home users. Save your docker containers nuke your
by xbmcuser 3y ago
I feel no standards for config files is probably the biggest reason app containers got traction with advanced home users. Save your docker containers nuke your server install move to a new distro and reimport back the app container.
- laeri 3y agoThere are standards. The article even mentions the xdg base dir standard. The problem is that not everyone follows them but a large number still do and then it is easy to find them. I still agree that app containers are still a good idea.
- metaltyphoon 3y agoWhen standards are not enforced, they became optional and IMO not really a standard.
- laeri 3y agoThe main culprits are programs that were written before the standard existed in addition to many people that just don't know about it. Who should enforce this standard? I would say community pressure does it pretty well at the moment. A standard does not need to be enforced and the XDG base directory one is still useful. The more awareness exists and the more people want this and think it is useful the better. It also has the advantage that no other competing standard exists as far as I know but it still has some downsides.