Pet Peeves: XDG Base Directory

The XDG Base Directory Specification was first published in 2003 as version 0.6 . There were minor updates in 2010 with 0.7 and in 2021 with 0.8 . While applications that pre-date the specification do not annoy me so much, newer applications that ignore it are a specific pet peeve of mine. While this specification typically only applies to Linux, many MacOS utilities are cross platform and could easily adopt the same standard, or use some of the MacOS locations. Instead, we have many, many, ...