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What I want in
$HOMEare the following directories:If I’m on a GUI-based environment:
In general:
I’d like everything else to live within something like ~/.local thanks
Maybe Linux should have
.localand.roamingfolders like Windows. local = only useful on this system, roaming = good to sync across systems. Config would be in.roamingif it's not machine-specific.The only practical difference between Local and Roaming and LocalLow is that developers randomly pick one and dump your game saves in there.
Does
~/.configfit the bill for the second one?There's some stuff in
~/.configthat's specific to the computer. KDE is a good example - a lot of KDE apps mix config and state in the same file. There's some solutions for syncing these files, like https://github.com/VorpalBlade/chezmoi_modify_manager which is an addon to Chezmoi that can exclude particular keys when storing an INI-style config file in Git.I'm sure there's some config files in there that are entirely specific to the computer. Things like the Wayland per-monitor scaling settings are in there somewhere I think.
There's also things like data files that you may want to keep in sync across machines. They're not really configs.
There is a
.localfolder these days.Profile roaming hasn’t been solved aside from NFS mounts. I guess Syncthing might work.
I know
.localexists - My comment was more about.roamingwhich would be nice to exist, but doesn't currently exist.I'm using Chezmoi to sync some dotfiles, scripts, etc. to a Git repo and that seems to work well enough for me. I'm not syncing much yet, though.