> The truth of the matter is that XDG only managed to encourage developers to move their files away from the root of $HOME but they didn't manage to make people

> The truth of the matter is that XDG only managed to encourage developers to move their files away from the root of $HOME but they didn't manage to make people respect a proper hierarchy of files. This is a great point, honestly. XDG actually does specify where things are supposed to go, and distinguishes between config, cache, state, and strictly-user files, but devs don't respect that hierarchy, either.