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Use the XDG Base Directory Specification

by Bogdanp on 10/30/25, 2:44 AM with 2 comments

  • by akagusu on 10/30/25, 12:05 PM

      > End users of your application (and hopefully yourself, as well) want a clean home directory.
    End users don't care, dotfiles are hidden by default.

  • by keernan on 10/30/25, 4:15 AM

    The linked page contains a broken link to the latest XDB Base Directory The correct link is: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/