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> Linux has no 'proper' directory for storing configuration, /etc ? > cache /var/cache, /var/tmp ? > and application user data. /var ?

• adastra22 1y ago
  Those aren’t writable for users.
  • cmurf 1y ago
    ~/.var is writable for users, which leads to ~/.var/app/$APP/cache per app.
    • adastra22 1y ago
      In my 40 years on this planet I have never once seen a ~/.var directory.
    • ndegruchy 1y ago
      You only really see ~/.var for flatpaks.
• ndegruchy 1y ago
  It's a stretch to say /var is for application _user_ data. For a certain value of "user" sure, like MariaDB or Redis. They're "users", and have data in /var but it's a non-interactive session. User data is stored in the user's $HOME, of which none of those locations are, generally, writable to an end-user, and wouldn't be a place to permanently store that data.