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>he started adding more potentially controversial changes, such as support for the XDG base directory specification

It feels like every single user-facing open source project needs to have its own XDG drama at some point.

I don't understand how it's a drama. It's an old spec, it's easy to follow, it's standard, and you can still keep compact with the old .dir at user root if you want.

What's the big deal ?

Some people really don’t like change. I understand that, but I think that the XDG directory spec is really worth having. It’s wonderful to unclutter $HOME.

But I do get that for those of us who’ve been using Unix for decades it can be a bit weird when stuff which used to be under $HOME/.$WHATEVER ends up under $HOME/.config/$WHATEVER.

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