Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"
keinBloudsinn@lemmings.world 2 days agoThis is not a Linux or Windows thing. It’s a lazy developer thing. It’s also another one of the ways that some devs will coddle the end-user because “learning a file directory system is hard.”
for someone regularly using both: it is a convenience feature.
that way i just know config files are under ~/.myApp.
if windows devs would beore consistent, i would be ok with %APPDATA%\myApp. however, too often it is under %APPDATA%\myApp\…\Roaming\myApp - which is just a pain. so i prefere linux style on windows.
I see your point, but as someone who preferred my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under ~/.config regardless of what operating system is being used.
yes, i could get behind that. problem is probably that this is such wide spread by now, that it would take a really long time to use that new standard.
Roaming and local are there for reasons.
Mostly enterprisey ones, but roaming “roams” with your user profile.
If you have ever used a system where you could sign onto any computer and your stuff would be there, it’s mostly due to roaming folder.
Local is local to the pc and does not roam to others
I think you meant %LOCALAPPDATA%
%APPDATA% points to roaming
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’m pretty sure the .file notation is a bug-turned-feature of a GNU coreutils program, Windows has no such thing and marks files as hidden using filesystem attributes.
I couldn’t say whether I prefer it one way or the other, but the dot prefix does stick out like a sore thumb on systems that don’t hide them by default… though I think AnyOldName3’s explaination makes sense.