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		yonatan8070 on April 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023... So much this, why do apps use .config like a place to store app data? We have .local and .cache for that

lambdaxyzw on April 19, 2024 [–]

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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