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.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      1 year ago

      ~/.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.

      • itchychipsEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.