• @nexussapphire@lemm.ee
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      2311 months ago

      Better, it could be literally anywhere and there’s nothing you can do about it. Also symlinks practically look like regular folders and files to most apps.

    • @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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      That’s why i prefer to use Wine for games. Just change the symlinks in C:/users/<you> to somewhere sane, like .local/Games/<game>/save. Guess you could also use the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs while creating the prefix, but i haven’t tested that yet.

    • Victor
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      I haven’t run into a game that does this 🤷‍♂️

      • @Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
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        811 months ago

        There’s no game related dirs in your My Documents dir? Most don’t even use My Games they just dump directly into My Documents. I guarantee most game devs don’t understand the difference between local and roaming either. They just put shit randomly wherever they want

        • Victor
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          111 months ago

          Oh, on Windows, sure. Not on Linux though.

          • @Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
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            111 months ago

            Linux is just as bad. You actually got anything in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or is your /home just a dot file dumping ground?

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              lol, this almost reads as a personal attack.

              I have almost nothing in my home directory, no. Been applying this to clean it up even further. I want my chezmoi dotfiles repo to be clean. Especially not games’ files since I run Steam through flatpak. It does put things in ~/.var but at least it’s collected to one point.

              Not really a problem of “Linux” or “Windows”, but more of “developers”.