I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    3 years ago

    I use linux and this annoys me to, every program just spams my home directory with config files, even though .config and .cache exist and are the standard

    • brie@beehaw.org
      1·
      3 years ago

      Programming tools/IDEs seem especially egregious.

      .android
.cargo
.choosenim
.conda
.emacs.d
.nimble
.npm
.rustup