At my org the security is so heavy

Yet you allow some rando software with evelated privileges to run their own updates?

Two partitions for a live linux, the second for home and other data. It can come in handy, if you’re on linux.

Medieval Dynasty?

Heartburn.

Wannabe cowboy.

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ADMINISTRATIONS PASSWORT EINSTELLEN!

DA FEHLT EIN BINDESTRICH!

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Time flies, where a HDD is barely enough to run a minimal Linux.

NPM on Windows, it doesn’t matter anymore.

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Optimizing your system for space is usually wasted effort in Linux, this is not Windows. To get what uses all the space, there’s plenty of storage analyzing tools like Baobab, qdirstat, etc.

You can of course not give users a choice. And a lot of applications do their own thing, having their own variables like GOPATH or a cli option like --config or some way to do that in a config file like Idea IDEs. But implementing XDG from start is miles simpler for all parties, it’s good practice to have your paths and variables somewhat organized in code anyway.

In this case it would be XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/config. That simple.

This standard makes your software’s paths user-configurable, giving users a choice.

And i wish there was a separate XDG_LOG_HOME or $HOME/.local/log, with logrotate preconfigured to look there.

What language? Python has PyXDG.

In shell it’s simply

XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME"/.local/share}"
XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME"/.config}"
etc.

Where did i read this… basically, the .file being hidden being a bug in the early unix filesystem, which got misused to hide configuration files.

Offenders despite XDG-variables set and with no workaround:

• .android: hardcoded in adb and i guess something in mtp too
• .pki: some tool/library Firefox and Chromium sometimes use.
• .steam: yes, that

Btw, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

Well, less people are listening new releases each year, more are listening old songs…

You were in grade school when this was made.