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The one that I've always found odd is everything deciding to dump itself in the user profile directory (this is even something that stuff like VS Code does).

XDG_CONFIG_HOME (|| ~/.config) and friends has been a standard for a long time now on *nix (including macOS) and AppData (née Application Data) has been the standard on Windows for over 20 years at this point.



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