In my view this isn’t about adhering to the XDG standard[3], it’s about getting things out of
$HOME. Unix dotfiles were always a (somewhat accidental) hack[4], and over the years we’ve accumulated entirely too many of them in our$HOMEs. The XDG option isn’t particularly perfect, but it’s at least a standard approach and it achieves the goal of getting dotfiles out of$HOME. As a side effect the XDG approach makes things more legible if you look in~/.config. — Where your program’s configuration files (‘dotfiles’) should go today