Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?
Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?
The diversity of Linux distributions is one of its strengths, but it can also be challenging for app and game development. Where do we need more standards? For example, package management, graphics APIs, or other aspects of the ecosystem? Would such increased standards encourage broader adoption of the Linux ecosystem by developers?
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Where app data is stored.
~/.local
~/.config
~/.var
~/.appname
Sometimes more than one place for the same program
Pick one and stop cluttering my home directory
I have good news and bad news:
A specification already exists. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
good luck winning any of these refusers over https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded
Eh, things have gotten better, and there are tools that make these tools respect them.
Yea I like how a lot have moved to using .config but mozilla just moved out of there and now has a .mozilla folder outside of it.. wtf... It is insanely sad.
I have actually moved my entire "user home folder".. folders out of there just because it is so ugly and unorganized. I now use /home/user/userfolders/.. all my stuff like documents / videos etc in here
it's pretty bad. steam for example has both
~/.steam and
~/.local/share/Steam
for some reason. I'm just happy I moved to an impermanent setup for my PC, so I don't need to worry something I temporarily install is going to clutter my home directory with garbagethat .steam is a bunch of symlinks to the .local one.. which makes it even worse. they have also .steampid and .steampath.
and even worse a bunch of games are starting to add them there too.
Factorio puts game saves in ~/.factorio for some reason...
damn, of all the people you'd think those guys would actually have used the .local or .config =[
I have 73 dot files in my home directory lmao
This would also be nice for atomic distros, application space and system space could be separated in more cases.
This would be convenient indeed, but I've learned to be indifferent about it as long as the manual or readme provides helpful and succinct information.