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

Seriously stop polluting my $HOME!

.pki .mozilla .java .gnupg .emacs.d .cargo .thunderbird .steam

dotfiles and their consequences were a disaster for the penguin race.

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This is a very petty issue but I'm still PISSED. angery

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    The Archwiki page has a list of applications w/ tips on how to change them

    I generally think the volunteers who work on these projects deserve the utmost respect on their issue trackers and official channels, but the ones in this list marked as "wontfix" deserve pigpoopballs in their pull requests.

    • bunnygirl [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      Oh, it is endlessly frustrating and almost always for the dumbest reasons you can imagine