Home Directory Cluttered With Dotfiles? Move Them!
Channel: DistroTube
Date: 02/08/2022

In this video, I want to talk a little bit about the XDG Base Specification which states that certain types of files must go in certain locations.  For example, all of your config files should go in HOME/.config.  All of your cache files should go in HOME/.cache.  And so on.   Is the XDG Base Specification a hard and fast rule that you must follow?  And if you choose to follow it, how do you go about cleaning up your HOME?

REFERENCED:
► https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory
► https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

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