@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1687arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1678arrow-down1external-linkDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.click@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square152fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•2 years agoI just leave all config in memory. If the user really cared, they would never reboot.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•2 years agoI just hard code all config in the source code. If the user really cared, they would recompile from source.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoI deliberately run / and /home as tmpfs. Then everything I want to persist across boots gets symlinked in at system start, and anything I didn’t opt in to saving gets deleted every boot.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years ago“Developers hate him for this one cool trick.”
I just leave all config in memory. If the user really cared, they would never reboot.
I just hard code all config in the source code. If the user really cared, they would recompile from source.
A suckless fan I see
I deliberately run / and /home as tmpfs. Then everything I want to persist across boots gets symlinked in at system start, and anything I didn’t opt in to saving gets deleted every boot.
“Developers hate him for this one cool trick.”