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1. Internet Turtle Ⓐ (taknamay@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 13:43:34 EDT Internet Turtle Ⓐ
   I don't understand why applications use dotfiles instead of .config or .local
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 13:48:11 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @taknamay using individual dotfiles predates those directories, which are an attempt to clean up some of the messiness of .{$application_name} and .{$application_name}rc files
      1. Internet Turtle Ⓐ (taknamay@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 13:54:00 EDT Internet Turtle Ⓐ

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         @lnxw48a1 But even new applications use dotfiles like .godot, .cargo, .solarus...
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 14:06:00 EDT lnxw48a1

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            @taknamay Maybe using one's own dotfile is more "unixy" that putting files in .config / .local / .kde. You can excuse lots of things that should otherwise be changed if you're being unixy (or windowsy, as the case may be).
            1. Internet Turtle Ⓐ (taknamay@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 14:10:54 EDT Internet Turtle Ⓐ

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               @lnxw48a1 I kind of wish there were a consumer unix-like system that was a clean break structurally but kept the basic ideas
               1. Internet Turtle Ⓐ (taknamay@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2017 14:11:37 EDT Internet Turtle Ⓐ

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                  @lnxw48a1 I guess that's kind of like OS X but of course I meant free software.