2025-08-22
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is for storing CONFIGURATION files, motherfucker, not a landfill for your garbage cache files. I back up that entire directory incrementally, as one should. I shouldn’t have to check every application I install is well-behaved enough to not dump their cache everywhere.
I can forgive some random solo-dev application doing it, but not Microshaft™ VSCode and Discord ffs.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
– rb