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		Use the XDG Base Directory Specification (xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com)
		1 point by Bogdanp 4 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

keernan 4 months ago | [–]

The linked page contains a broken link to the latest XDB Base Directory The correct link is: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

akagusu 4 months ago | [–]

  > End users of your application (and hopefully yourself, as well) want a clean home directory.

End users don't care, dotfiles are hidden by default.

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