the swagon on Nostr: also if i can say something so controversial, configs should not be stored in the ...

also if i can say something so controversial, configs should not be stored in the same place as data. I have all my shit in ~/.dots on the desktop but really we should have something like /home/alice/{cache,config,local,files}, and files should be the actual home directory, front page of your file manager. if you want to have your own user software and configs or whatever you can have it there, and crucially, files gets synced across devices unambiguously while other directories should only get synced on duplicate instances

For instance, I use zsh on both my desktop and laptop, so /home/alice/config/zsh should obviously be shared between the two, but I only use sway on my laptop, so /home/alice/config/sway doesn't need to get shared because the folder doesn't exist on the desktop. Want to sync a folder? just create it and it should populate automatically. Want to keep a separate config of the same software for two or more devices? add it to a list that stops the system from syncing it is my intuitive fix.