The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.
Apps I write put config files in
XDG_CONFIG_HOME/appname/, which is usually~/.config/appname/. What’s wrong with that?1GB of files is not configuration.
Oh I see, the problem is misusing it for stuff that isn’t configuration, yeah that makes sense now.
Thats how its supposed to be, but if your config dir is tens of megabytes large, you’re doing something wrong