[eviks]

The hidden part is another usability mistake, but the main benefit of XDG is respecting user's choice who can set an env var to avoid the mess, hope you wouldn't disagree with an option the improves someone's life without affecting yours in any way?

[fiddlerwoaroof]

The convention of hiding files starting with a dot is not a usability mistake. It’s a usability improvement.

[eviks]

Why would you hide the files a user is explicitly expected to tweak to configure an app's behavior and call it an improvement??? It degrades the config experience, what part of "usability" is improved?

Also, fun historical fact: it was a bug when it was implemented https://linux-audit.com/linux-history-how-dot-files-became-h...