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		kennywinker 53 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Sp... Have you ever `ls -al ~/` on a heavily used unix system? Absolute rot and chaos. I have like 100 hidden directories+files in the root of my home directory. Some of them are caches, some are configs.

ceving 52 days ago [–]

And now "absolute rot and chaos" is in "~/.config". What is the difference?

kennywinker 51 days ago | [–]

I don’t have to look at it quite as often, and i know to back up .config and ignore .cache.

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