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.
But what about .local/, or .appname/? It’s just a mess
~/.local
is the non-root version of/usr
. By.appname
do you just mean a folder that a specific app made in your home for itself? Yeah, I never condone that. imo that’s just a badly behaving app. It should move that folder into~/.config
.Is all of that defined in a standard somewhere?
I usually just use
$HOME/bin
and$HOME/opt
for all my local user’s program needs, but would be interested if there is an actual defined standard for this.