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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

~/.config superiority

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

I would fucking love it if I could put all my configs there, but unfortunately every other CLI tool seems to feel it needs a spot in the home dir instead..

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so ya just put so the stuff in there? is there a reason for that specific directory (I'm kinda a noob)

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's used to store configuration files for various applications so they don't clutter up your home directory. For example, you can put your Emacs config files in ~/.config/emacs instead of ~/.emacs.d. Not every program supports it though.