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submitted 11 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 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/.

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