To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software

0x4E4F · 8 months ago

To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software

csm10495 · 8 months ago

This isn’t really accurate for either side. For Linux, I’ve had crap shove configs in ~, /etc, /var, at least.

On Windows, it could be literally anywhere or in the registry.

atmur@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

That’s one thing I especially like about Flatpaks on the Linux side. Everything’s in ~/.var.

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz · 8 months ago

Which unfortunately also don’t follow xdg-dir specification…

Hello Hotel@lemmy.world · edit-2 8 months ago

Or ~/.local/share/${software_name_or_whatever}… Or ~/.${software_name_or_whatever}/

Oof

jbk@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 months ago

i love apps which don’t follow the XDG Base Directory spec 🥰🥰

Hello Hotel@lemmy.world · edit-2 8 months ago

Which one is your favorate, mine is ~/freedroid/. 😝

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz · 8 months ago

If you have flatpak, and the application don’t need full user home access, then you can move the folder to application sandbox by setting a persistent path.

0x4E4F · edit-2 8 months ago

Or ~/.config/software_name.

Hello Hotel@lemmy.world · edit-2 8 months ago

Being the ‘correct one’ makes it easy to skip over… thx

platypus_plumba@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

The idea of the registry is so freaking nice. Imagine if all the configs of a system could be changed through a centralized and consistent API.