American_Jesus ( American_Jesus@lemm.ee ) to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickexternal-linkmessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1420cross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
arrow-up1420external-linkDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickAmerican_Jesus ( American_Jesus@lemm.ee ) to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years agomessage-square44linkfedilinkcross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
minus-squarePlexSheep ( PlexSheep@feddit.de ) linkfedilinkarrow-up17·3 years agoI agree with most of your points, but I still think putting configs in the xdg dir instead of putting tons of dotfiles in $HOME is good practice. I find dotfiles to be that stuff that I want to edit easily, and xdg stuff to be that stuff that I don’t edit frequently (manually at least)
I agree with most of your points, but I still think putting configs in the xdg dir instead of putting tons of dotfiles in $HOME is good practice.
I find dotfiles to be that stuff that I want to edit easily, and xdg stuff to be that stuff that I don’t edit frequently (manually at least)