Warning, I’m about to get on my mild OCD soapbox again.
Too many development tools expect to get the privilege of a config file in the root directory of my projects. Many of them don’t even allow it to be a hidden file—they just require a fully unhidden “tool.yml” file sitting right there in the root of your project.
Stop it. Please.
Linux HOME Directory Link to heading Once upon a time this was a serious problem for organizing files in the Linux HOME directory too. Tools thought way too much of themselves and added files, directories, etc. to your HOME folder. A lot of them still do!
My
$HOMEis recreated on boot and lives in RAM. I don’t care what gets written there; if I didn’t know about it and intend to save it to disk, then it won’t be saved. It would be nice if tools were not offenders here, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t defend ourselves somewhat.I am guessing you would have separate mounts for .cache, .local and .config ?