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Re:Dotfile madness by pvg on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:28PM (#19066885)
But nowadays, lots of applications seem to think it's OK to put normal files in my home folder without asking first. This is just outright barbarism.

If every desktop application that needed to store cross-invocation state asked for permission we'd probably say it was an invasion of bad-design huns.

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Re:Dotfile madness by airstrike on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:54PM (#19067945)
%APPDATA% doesn't require permission
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