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[–] rhpp@programming.dev 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah it should be $HOME, not everyone's home directory is in the default location.

[–] msage@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago

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[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah you should use xdg dirs, it's 2025.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as shown in your link, $HOME does not conflict with the XDG Base Directory Specification. It partially relies on $HOME being defined.

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

Subdirs of $HOME are used as defaults. So using $HOME alone is not enough. Also, prior to xdg dirs, applications were (many still are) storing their data under $HOME/.myapplication/.