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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:54AM (#32277723)
I'm pretty sure .local is the per-user /usr, and .config is /etc
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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by db48x on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:45AM (#32278447)
You’re both correct; a fair number of applications put their configuration in ~/.local/share even though that wasn’t the intent.
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