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How to make a Linux user sweat. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Linux distros are largely a nightmare of userland spaghetti, with no willingness to enforce strict conventions and patterns.

I still use it, but I'll call it as I see it.

[–] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We have this, this.

All my programs, except for Firefox and its forks, respect this.

[–] halva@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

the real criminal is go not even creating a .directory, just a regular ass plain as day obvious one

even on windows

[–] databender@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I do not browse Lemmy to be attacked, sir.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I hate when programs use home dir for config, data and god forbid, cache. Having . is not an excuse, people. Use .config or literally anywhere else.

[–] theluckyone@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Not wrong.

[–] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Must be something wrong my Linux systems then, with their sparkling clean home directories

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

mine is... empty. Just a secondary drive with a bunch of folders, each containing a docker-compose.yml

Then my vps only has a single docker-compose.yml

And my pc runs an os that's actually decent for desktop use

[–] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  1. chmod 500 /home/bob

Now your user can't create or rename files in that top level directory. This means your programs can't either.

  1. Set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to /home/bob/.config

There are more variables, but this one alone is the biggest change.

  1. Move/remove offending programs.

Self explanatory.

Spec, support.