Have you looked at your homedir lately? Cluttered with dotfiles, isn't it? If you don't know what a 'dotfile' is, look at your home files with
ls ~/
... now look again with ls -a ~/
. Quite a difference, right? In theory we have some modern XDG standards that will take a lot of that clutter and put them in ~/.config
, ~/.local
, and ~/.cache
but that requires the programs to adhere to the XDG spec. Since we're in The Year Of The Linux Desktop we're actually in an exciting time where we are seeing a lot of developers making software (including games!) for Linux without actually being in the ecosystem from the start. So a lot of them aren't necessarily using Linux day-to-day. They aren't aware of how your homedir can get littered with crap from software that doesn't understand that ~/
is not the same as "My Documents" on other operating systems.