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I know that accordingly XDG Base Directory specification there is an effort to make apps to store their data into ~/.local, ~/.config, ~/.cache directories. But unfortunately, there are many apps that do thing in their own way. So there is huge amount of dotfiles in my home folder.

How to get rid of them? I would prefer to have the only .app special folder where apps store their data. Also three special folders (see above) are acceptable, but hundreds of .folders and .files is really annoying thing.

What if I change the $HOME var to $HOME/.apps? Is there any way to solve this?

4xy
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In Nautilus File Manager, you can show/hide the .dot files by hitting Control-h.

Otherwise, leave the .dot files alone. Some of them are system related. Also don't change your $HOME. Both actions will break your system.

heynnema
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