Well, it's just the natural extension of the FHS convention to the home directory.

I didn't come up with this idea, though, I think I saw this in a reddit thread and started doing it myself: I like that the directories are visible and follow the usual structure.

▲ godelski 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why not push it under a hidden directory? Like ~/.local/etc? If we're reconstructing some of the hierarchy I think it makes sense to group and hide. Isn't the problem that the home folder is getting cluttered?

▲ rnhmjoj 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why would I hide them? They're not really special and since I'm organising them with modetc they're not cluttered. For reference, my home looks something like this

    ~
    ├── bin         binaries and scripts
    ├── etc         configuration files
    ├── var
    │   ├── lib     program data
    │   └── cache   program caches
    ├── src         git repositories
    ├── img         pictures
    ├── mail        email in maildir format
    ├── note        text notes, todo
    ├── doc         documents
    └── down        downloads

▲ dividedbyzero 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But why would I want those directories visible in my home dir?

	▲	rustyminnow 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why would I want them hidden? I access files in ~/.config almost daily, I think this is a really good idea