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Comment by avsteele | Hacker News Reader

When using .Net 6 I use

  Environment.GetFolderPath( SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)

in Windows this maps to

  ~/AppData/Local

An in Linux to

  ~/.local/share

so it is configured well

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I'm not sure I'd call that configured well. On Linux, share is supposed to contain static data used by the app, not the changing configuration that normally goes into appdata on Windows. For config the equivalent should be ~/.config/appname

He's getting the wrong folder on Windows too because that's what he's requesting when passing in SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData. SpecialFolder.ApplicationData returns %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming on Windows and ~/.config on Linux.

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