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Something really annoys me. So, we have the standard XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which is ~/.config.

Then, why do we have ~/.xmonad ? Why do we have ~/.xmonad ? Why do we have ~/.Xresources ? I get it, there are historic reasons, like .profile or .bashrc that have been there for SOO long, but ~/.minecraft ? What even is the reasoning ? Or .gitconfig. Or, .steampid, which is a symlink to .steam/steam.pid. I mean, we could just use .config, .cache, .local and .history, and everything would be alright.

My current home directory currently has 48 dotfiles. This is huge. This is nonsense. There is .local, there is .config, there is all those things that nobody really respects.

I really have this feeling, that there are literal TONS of standards, and everybody just decides to say "no, I won't respect that". It may make sense SOMETIMES. If you edit some files a lot, having them closer to the home directory might be useful. Or, xterm way of handling +/- options allows very short program calls, yet powerful.

This frustrates me. If Linux is supposed to be consistent, how are those things even real ?

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Edit : I mean, this is a thing : https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

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so i try

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