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by eviks 1178 days ago
Your first point is just reiterating my criticism

> just want to make your personal stuff do what you expect

That's obviously not "just" what I want, so care to come up with an actual reason why moving from the OS dumping ground to a user's custom folder is not a good general advice?

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Programs should default to following the platform convention. It's totally fine for a user to decide that they want to stick everything in ~/.config even on Windows, but it's inappropriate for programs to use that as a default.
I've asked you for an explanation re why following worse defaults is better, not a repetition