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threecheese 3 hours ago

And then you get friends like Claude - dozens of them - which prefer to crap all over $HOME.

The app ‘Conductor’ does this, and I had to uninstall it; I just can’t crack my ‘ls ~/.co<TAB>’ habit, and “nd” is juuuuuust ahead of “nf”.

It *used to* be ‘~/c<TAB>’ before .claude crapped itself into existence..

flexagoon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I usually treat an app putting stuff into $HOME with no reason to change that as a reason to not use the app. I've genuinely switched software multiple times because of the old one doing this.

I also suggest you try xdg-ninja, which automatically scans your home directory and shows which of those directories you can change to a different location:

https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

I have a big shell config file that sets proper locations for all sort of programs I use:

https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/f...

chrisweekly 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I feel you. My solution is leaning into `z` ("frecency" heuristic), and selective use of "extra" zshrc aliases.