[jbaber]

I have finally realized why so many people suddenly care about dotfiles in $HOME. I bet they're all using GUI file managers.

So where I never see these things without an `ls -a`, modern linux users are double clicking a folder and have to scroll past hundreds of dotfiles.

Also explains the X in XDG.

[voltaireodactyl]

Any GUI file manager worth its salt can hide invisible and/or dotfiles, it’s table stakes — and just a GUI representation of that same terminal output.