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Use the XDG Base Directory Specification (xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com)
1 points by Bogdanp 226 days ago
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keernan 226 days ago
The linked page contains a broken link to the latest XDB Base Directory The correct link is: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
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akagusu 226 days ago 

  > End users of your application (and hopefully yourself, as well) want a clean home directory.
End users don't care, dotfiles are hidden by default.
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