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by yjftsjthsd-h 1179 days ago
> 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.

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