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Yea this is something I'd love to see standardised, a distro that was able to enforce a .config folder somehow would be a winner for me. Think weve probably mis

Yea this is something I'd love to see standardised, a distro that was able to enforce a .config folder somehow would be a winner for me. Think weve probably missed the boat though.

9dev 6mo ago
As these things go, there obviously is a standard for this called the XDG Base Directory Specification[0], which elegantly solves almost all configuration path needs—and has been ignored, violated, or only partially implemented, since forever. [0]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/ https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
- amelius 6mo ago
  Say what you want about AI but one nice aspect of it is that it is more likely to follow these kinds of standards than humans.
- hollerith 5mo ago
  The problems this standard solves are not hard, and "elegant" is not how I'd describe the solution.