[pxc]

> This statement is misleading/wrong. Like all other XDG stuff, it's not about the machine, it's about the particular user.

No, it's both. The XDG state dir is for things that are also machine-specific so that, e.g., it doesn't make sense to sync them as part of your dotfiles.

> why does the author consider the given positive example clean and tidy, when it has files .profile and .bashrc placed directly in the user's home directory? Following the rules, these files should be within the .config/ directory as well.

They should! Some shells have kindly moved to follow this convention following requests from users who like it for other apps and would prefer more uniformity w/r/t config file location conventions, e.g.: https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/383

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> No, it's both. The XDG state dir is for things that are also machine-specific so that, e.g., it doesn't make sense to sync them as part of your dotfiles.

It was probably written back when it was more common to have your home on NFS, although I'm not sure how that would work without needing to use overlayfs per-machine or something.

[vetinari]

Or maybe you want to sync your config across multiple machines. Like desktop and laptop.

[imbnwa]

Also Fish shell