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Same thing, wish that from the start unix had some standardized "applications put everything they want here" home directory that's separate from the "here user
by Aardwolf 3y ago
Same thing, wish that from the start unix had some standardized "applications put everything they want here" home directory that's separate from the "here user chooses to put their own files" home directory
- yencabulator 3y agoAt the start, unix commands didn't need or use configuration files. The world really was that simple, for a while. Now we have even simple desktop apps, that I have not changed a single setting in, insisting to write a whole directory tree of whatever data in my home. Or absolutely moronic things like ~/.config/VSCod*/*Cache* -- really, cache in config?
- Aardwolf 2y agoOr ending up with multi-gigabyte ML models somewhere in deeply nested hidden directories in your homedir