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    [–] 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