Please no. This article is literally "Dotfile madness", don't make it worse!

I have to deal already with these on file shares, specifically for Apple: .DS_Store, .Trashes and .AppleDouble, or for Windows: Thumbs.db, $RECYCLE.BIN (for some reason Windows sometimes ignores the fact I've disabled the recycle bin on a share and creates this instead) and desktop.ini. Please don't drop crap around directories where there exist a multitude of tidier alternatives.