I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion, but you got everything completely wrong. First of all, writing state and configuration files in the home director

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion, but you got everything completely wrong. First of all, writing state and configuration files in the home directory, without any well thought out structure, has been a common practice since UNIX existed, XDG did not even exist then. Precisely because this lazy practice causes all sorts of problems, the cross-desktop group (XDG) came up with a standard called the "base directory specification"[1] which proposes to divide applications files into configuration, data, caches and are supposed to be stored in subdirectories named after the application in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ($HOME/.config if unsed), $XDG_DATA_HOME ($HOME/.local/share if unset), $XDG_CACHE_HOME ($HOME/.cache if unset), respectively. [1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/