If we want to flex gray hairs, the idea that an application should put it's configuration files in dotfiles cluttering the home directory is regarded as a mistake by the people who are responsible for it.
Obviously, we are now stuck with dotfiles as a "feature", but that doesn't mean we need to have more of them than necessary. Cluttering the home folder with a disorganized mess of files with different modalities next to eachother is ridiculous, pointless, and a collective waste of time.
Almost all of the apps people are complaining about not following XDG were created long after the XDG base directory specification existed. It's time to move on.
P.S.: it'd be preferable also if it wasn't simply implied that everyone who's been around Linux/UNIX for a couple decades hates change. Churn for the sake of churn is bad, but churn is not all wasted. Standardizing once-disorganized directory hierarchy is certainly not a waste of time.
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Obviously, we are now stuck with dotfiles as a "feature", but that doesn't mean we need to have more of them than necessary. Cluttering the home folder with a disorganized mess of files with different modalities next to eachother is ridiculous, pointless, and a collective waste of time.
Almost all of the apps people are complaining about not following XDG were created long after the XDG base directory specification existed. It's time to move on.
P.S.: it'd be preferable also if it wasn't simply implied that everyone who's been around Linux/UNIX for a couple decades hates change. Churn for the sake of churn is bad, but churn is not all wasted. Standardizing once-disorganized directory hierarchy is certainly not a waste of time.