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		olalonde on March 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use the XDG Base Directory Specification In case anyone else was wondering, XDG stands for X Desktop Group, an older name for freedesktop.org[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org

kelnos on March 24, 2023 [–]

Oh huh, I was always under the impression that "X" meant "Cross", as in "Cross-Desktop Group", since they were working on standardizing things across different desktop environments. But I guess the "X" was just a reference to X11? I guess today it encompasses a lot more than X11-based stuff, though...

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