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XDG didn't (IMO) make things worse, but it also didn't help as much as it should have. My `~/.config` is the largest subdirectory of `~`, because every Chromium/Electron-based application uses `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/$APP_NAME/Service Worker/CacheStorage` and `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/$APP_NAME/Cache` (and a few other cache directories) instead of sticking those in `${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/$APP_NAME`.



Have you filed a bug report?



Exactly. It's never getting fixed, it'd break backwards compatibility now!

It's especially frustrating because it means you can't simply back up your entire `~/.config` (or wherever you pointed your `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}`), you have to pick specific files & folders in there.




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