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I guess the ire towards macOS-created apps comes from the fact that you can write macOS things that work on Linux without doing the “proper” things for the platform.

Windows is SO different that you have to do real porting work.

When something requires a minimal amount of porting effort to do 100% perfectly, or zero effort to do 99% it seems a lot of apps go for that 99%.

For my part writing cross platform apps I never actually realized there was a standard for arranging dotfiles so I wouldn’t have even realized I was leaving something out. XDG was one of those things I was vaguely aware existed and figured had something to do with the house of cards that is Linux desktop environments.




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