Hey guys! Is there a way for me to force apps to treat e.g. $HOME/.config/ as their default directory to look for settings? I want to clear up my home directory because its getting quite messy and I don’t even have that many packages installed yet.

Also, any way that would be easy and efficient for use with git for the purpose of backing up my dotfiles.

Thanks!

  • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 years ago

    What ended up happening with me was I just have all my stuff in a separate /stuff partition. That way I don’t need to worry about dotfiles cluttering up my actual data. I also use NixOS Home-Manager to manage my dotfiles for things like git and vscodium.

    • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m a recent transplant from windows to linux and I saw this coming. My Documents is not reserved for documents that are actually mine, I had no expectation /home would be any different, and it seems I was correct. Other than some things I want quick access to (downloads, notes, scripts) I keep everything I care about organized under /data.