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Beyond organization, I want to concisely back up and port between machines.

The `.config` folder is a big headache when trying to be strategic about backups due to apps putting gigs of session data there.

"session data" is not "config", consarnit! An app's "config" shouldn't be gigs large. Grumble grumble, grouse grouse, and so on. :^)



And it should be possible for `.config` to be read-only, provided you do not ask a program to change a persistent setting.


You would love nixos - all configs are readonly.


So much this, why do apps use .config like a place to store app data? We have .local and .cache for that


Because programmers like to have something like DATA_DIR - a writable directory managed by the program.

Thinking about multiple storage locations is effort and most users don't care about this too much anyway




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