Bahman M. (@bahmanm@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024. Please store your #Linux #desktop application configurations ONLY in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`. NOT in `$HOME` or other non-standard or obsolete places. May #FreeDesktop be your guide. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ #Programming #DevOps #SysAdmin

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      • @Samueru@lemmy.ml
        1•1 year ago

        It’s empty lol, it’s a directory on tmpfs that i use to build programs and similar stuff to not be hammering my ssd with unnecessary writes.

        I have $XDG_CACHE_HOME in tmp as well and I moved the mesa sharer caches to $XDG_STATE_HOME as that’s really the only thing so far I’ve needed to preserve.

        • @tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          tmpfs (…) to build programs (…) to not be hammering my ssd with unnecessary writes

          Sounds useful. How did you setup the directory?

          Running df tells me “tmpfs” is mounted on /run. If I build in that that directory then would it be stored in RAM, or do I need to do something else?

          • @Samueru@lemmy.ml
            2•1 year ago

            I have /tmp in my fstab with these mount options.

            tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,noatime,size=20G 0 0

            And the rest of the setup is done in my zprofile

    • @dizzy@lemmy.ml
      4•1 year ago

      Whoa I’m a stickler for getting as much as I can out but even I have .zshenv and some other too hard to figure out things in there. How’d you manage a total wipeout?

      • @Samueru@lemmy.ml
        3•1 year ago

        zsh is actually easy and it is detailed in the archwiki

        You have to set $ZDOTDIR in /etc/zsh/zshenv and iirc that was the only location that required root to edit.

        For the rest of stuff, here is how I fix steam for example and you can check the rest of my dotfiles for how I configured zsh and all of that.

        Although I haven’t updated them, I still had a .local directory back then, it was 1 week ago that I changed .local for Local and that let to an issue with distrobox which I made a PR fixing it that’s still open though.