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All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It would be amazing yeah, standardising all user config files in the $HOME, and maybe etc/ or an default, non usable, user profile to store the original versions, in case of a bad config or corrupted file would save so much time debugging stuff.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Sadly, what we seem to have over and over is https://xkcd.com/927/

It’s getting better though

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