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    [–] nymphlode@pawb.social 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Haven't used much of Linux before, can someone explain the joke?

    [–] Hubi@feddit.de 36 points 9 months ago

    Most software on Linux is configured to place their config files in ~/.config. Some others, like the ones in the pic, just dump them directly into your home folder.

    [–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.

    [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    ah so like every fucking game and it's save files for some reason?

    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

    Better, it could be literally anywhere and there's nothing you can do about it. Also symlinks practically look like regular folders and files to most apps.

    [–] victorz@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I haven't run into a game that does this 🤷‍♂️

    [–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    There’s no game related dirs in your My Documents dir? Most don’t even use My Games they just dump directly into My Documents. I guarantee most game devs don’t understand the difference between local and roaming either. They just put shit randomly wherever they want

    [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Oh, on Windows, sure. Not on Linux though.

    [–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Linux is just as bad. You actually got anything in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or is your /home just a dot file dumping ground?

    [–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    lol, this almost reads as a personal attack.

    I have almost nothing in my home directory, no. Been applying this to clean it up even further. I want my chezmoi dotfiles repo to be clean. Especially not games' files since I run Steam through flatpak. It does put things in ~/.var but at least it's collected to one point.

    Not really a problem of "Linux" or "Windows", but more of "developers".

    [–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Sorry. Definitely not meant as one lol

    That last line is 100% true

    [–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 15 points 9 months ago

    ... or just imagine all of it being thrown on the Desktop (the bare user directory is rarely visited in Windows)

    [–] nymphlode@pawb.social 6 points 9 months ago

    Hahahaha oh man I know exactly what you're talking about too 😭 hate when they do that

    [–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Yes.

    Many applications have configuration files. Historically these files were placed in your home directory aka "on the floor". The variable mentioned defines a directory where these files should go. Many applications ignore this.

    A non-linux version of this meme might go,

    "Here is the pizza you ordered"

    "Great, could you put it in my hands"

    "Lol (throws pizza on floor)"

    [–] neidu2@feddit.nl 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is an environment variable that programs can (and should) read to determine the location for storing dotfiles (config files, kind of). Not reading (or caring about) the environment variable, and not adhering to the default of /home/username/.config/ results in them ending up in the home directory.