Yea this is something I'd love to see standardised, a distro that was able to enforce a .config folder somehow would be a winner for me. Think weve probably missed the boat though.

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9dev 2 hours ago | parent [-]

As these things go, there obviously is a standard for this called the XDG Base Directory Specification[0], which elegantly solves almost all configuration path needs—and has been ignored, violated, or only partially implemented, since forever.

[0]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

	▲	amelius an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Say what you want about AI but one nice aspect of it is that it is more likely to follow these kinds of standards than humans.