On: Dotfile madness

[Epskampie]

On the one hand this is annoying, on the other it’s great that you can just backup your home dir and have all your files and settings in one go.

Also this annoyance is easy to solve, just make one dir in home (my is called after my name) and put all your own files in there.

[osmarks → Epskampie]

The XDG directories are by default under your home dir only, so you can keep the same backupability properties. Better ones, even, since the files of things supporting it are in one place.

[lytedev → Epskampie]

Yep! This is my favorite trick. I just make home /home/$USER/.home and have my she'll rc start me in /home/$USER - works a treat!

[pkulak → Epskampie]

Doesn't the standard just put everything in /home/user/.local anyway?

[fxfan → Epskampie]

There are cleaner solutions to this- XDG being one. Thee current situation doesn't give an option to people who don't want to do things this way

[s3m4j → Epskampie]

So you're running everything under `/home/Epskampie/Epskampie` ?

[edoceo → s3m4j]

It's /home/Epskampie/.home