My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

Golang puts shit specifically in $HOME/go. Not even .go. Just plain go.

Why is it so difficult to follow industry standards

Shout out to xdg-ninja - it'll find files that are in your home and suggest how to configure the app to use XDG instead. https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

I wish they used them all, especially XDG_CACHE_HOME which can become pretty big pretty fast.

100% agree and I also despise devs who do this on windows, instead of using %appdata% they’re using c:\users\username\.myappisimportantandtotallydeservesthisdir

I didn't know about this (and thankfully, haven't written anything public). I've been trying to fix an install script for an OSS project that doesn't work on immutable distros, and using the XDG Base Directory specs might just be the panacea I was looking for!

Where did i read this... basically, the .file being hidden being a bug in the early unix filesystem, which got misused to hide configuration files.

Offenders despite XDG-variables set and with no workaround:

• .android: hardcoded in adb and i guess something in mtp too
• .pki: some tool/library Firefox and Chromium sometimes use.
• .steam: yes, that

Btw, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

Shameless flex

Here is a more concise way to achieve the same thing:

ls -ACd ~/.??*/ | sed -e "s#$HOME/##g"

My fellow FOSS users, patches are welcome.

there's no place like 127.0.0.1

there's no place like XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

vim now has an option to put the .vim folder in ~/.config; though I'm not sure if the default plugin/package & syntax folders can be set under ~/.local/share.

YOU'RE NOT MY MOM I'LL DO WHAT I WANT

BRB, putting in a PR to make /etc mode 1777 by default.

yes please!

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Are there abstractions available around the XDG specifications to resolve the proper paths?

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Probably half the entries in that list are not GUI apps, and XDG doesn't apply (though some still support it). For some others there (like emacs) XDG is used if it exists.

This would just further complicate things for me. It assumes that 1) the system even has a windowing system/desktop environment or 2) all the installed software is XDG-aware. Most of the time I’m fiddling with headless environments.

Whatever happened to Linux being all about choice? Do you want that or not?

https://xkcd.com/927

But what's the difference? It'll be in /home anyways and I heard BSD had some issues with something that could be XDG.