He’s using windows.

But while we’re on the subject, ~/.local/share is cancer and shouldn’t exist.

The appropriate path is /usr/share.

EDIT: Okay to be clear I mean that anything that could be global should go into /usr/share and massively save on space and effort if another user needs the same stuff.

Anything that doesn’t need to be global doesn’t need to go into /use/share but somewhere else in ~/.

The way it is now my ~/.local is a massive dumping ground of crap from configs to static app resources that should go into /usr/share to entire applications with snap or flatpak (why I don’t use them) to random config files.

It’s just a nasty mess on my home partition when it in most cases really doesn’t need to be.

Users below rightfully pointed out many exceptions like venvs and while I still believe there should be a more correct place for them to go e.g. (~/.venv, ~/.flatpak), but obviously they shouldn’t go into /usr/share willy-nilly.

I have removed the sass below because I should’ve been more comprehensive in my criticism before ad-hominem.

2025 is deemed the year of layoffs

Wasn’t 2023 the year of layoffs? Didnt like half a million people get laid off since 2020 per layoffs.fyi?

Sucks. Fuck KYC now and forever