Unpopular opinion maybe, but even under Linux and BSDs I’ve felt that dot folders/files in home are poor practice. Hiding them was a band-aid for bringing *nixe

Unpopular opinion maybe, but even under Linux and BSDs I’ve felt that dot folders/files in home are poor practice. Hiding them was a band-aid for bringing *nixes into the GUI era and just adds an extra hurdle outside of the CLI, and many of them are overly specific compared to the other standard user folders. I think macOS has the right idea with ~/Library/ though I’m not as sure about the name. Maybe ~/Support/ or ~/System/ or something makes more sense, but whatever the case I’d rather see the dot files/folders swept up into proper unhidden directories under that directory, e.g. ~/Support/Config/, ~/Support/SSH/, etc. Which really is all the reason more why programs should actually check $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. It’s not good to just assume when a distro or user might have different conventions set up.