Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Legacy Linux Apps Are A Dotfile Nightmare" video.

  1. I thought the modern web browsers internally used containers to isolate the more risky processes. How valuable is it to add an extra container layer on top of that?
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  2. Windows shares the problem that the special directories are a relatively new creation, especially the "Documents" and related folders.
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  3. That seems to me more like a desktop environment issue, or possibly udisks. It doesn't sound like something the kernel would do.
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  4.  @franciscopena7859  Automatically moving existing config files to a new directory is just asking for problems. If I write a config file I don't want anyone else messing with it. Plus if you then run an older version all your config files will be missing. You're relatively unlikely to switch to an older version on a single-user home system but on a network system where your home directory is over NFS it can easily happen.
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  5. The whole point of the home directory is to store your personal files, it's the only place your user has write access to.
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