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How to make a Linux user sweat. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Must be something wrong my Linux systems then, with their sparkling clean home directories

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)
  1. chmod 500 /home/bob

Now your user can't create or rename files in that top level directory. This means your programs can't either.

  1. Set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to /home/bob/.config

There are more variables, but this one alone is the biggest change.

  1. Move/remove offending programs.

Self explanatory.

Spec, support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

I hate when programs use home dir for config, data and god forbid, cache. Having . is not an excuse, people. Use .config or literally anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Linux distros are largely a nightmare of userland spaghetti, with no willingness to enforce strict conventions and patterns.

I still use it, but I'll call it as I see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

We have this, this.

All my programs, except for Firefox and its forks, respect this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

the real criminal is go not even creating a .directory, just a regular ass plain as day obvious one

even on windows

[–] databender 12 points 1 day ago

I do not browse Lemmy to be attacked, sir.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

mine is... empty. Just a secondary drive with a bunch of folders, each containing a docker-compose.yml

Then my vps only has a single docker-compose.yml

And my pc runs an os that's actually decent for desktop use