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    [–] nymphlode@pawb.social 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Haven't used much of Linux before, can someone explain the joke?

    [–] refurbishedrefurbisher 95 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.

    [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ah so like every fucking game and it's save files for some reason?

    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

    Better, it could be literally anywhere and there's nothing you can do about it. Also symlinks practically look like regular folders and files to most apps.

    [–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's why i prefer to use Wine for games. Just change the symlinks in C:/users/ to somewhere sane, like .local/Games//save. Guess you could also use the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs while creating the prefix, but i haven't tested that yet.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 year ago

    ... or just imagine all of it being thrown on the Desktop (the bare user directory is rarely visited in Windows)

    [–] nymphlode@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

    Hahahaha oh man I know exactly what you're talking about too 😭 hate when they do that

    [–] Hubi@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago

    Most software on Linux is configured to place their config files in ~/.config. Some others, like the ones in the pic, just dump them directly into your home folder.

    [–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes.

    Many applications have configuration files. Historically these files were placed in your home directory aka "on the floor". The variable mentioned defines a directory where these files should go. Many applications ignore this.

    A non-linux version of this meme might go,

    "Here is the pizza you ordered"

    "Great, could you put it in my hands"

    "Lol (throws pizza on floor)"

    [–] neidu2@feddit.nl 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is an environment variable that programs can (and should) read to determine the location for storing dotfiles (config files, kind of). Not reading (or caring about) the environment variable, and not adhering to the default of /home/username/.config/ results in them ending up in the home directory.

    So in linux you have an extra directory just for configuration files/directories wich often start with a . (Dot) (that's why they are calld dot files). But some applications dont use that directory but rather just dump them into your user directory, wich causes it to get cluttered with files wich should be put into the ".config" directory