Should everything go in ~/.config or would that be just bein

Yes.

It's apart of the elder god Linux setup where your put your home directory on an entirely different partition/ssd altogether and then whenever you need to reinstall linux or install a new distribution altogether then you use that existing home directory that has all of your custom configurations that you've painstakingly modified to your preference.

>>55763606
Nah just make your program splash a hundred files all over $HOME.
Also don't forget to create non-hidden directories like "My Videos" or "Data" in $HOME.
Users love that

Why not just have skeleton files in /etc then manually copy things over to your directory of choice to configure them? You then invoke the program with the new config, which would be in your bashrc.

>>55763606
Put everything in .config and then turn it into a git repository.
Now you have version controlled dotfiles.

>>55763792
this. Or use GNUstow to create symlinks to them

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Does BSD differ from Linux on this? It seems like they would have saner defaults.

Half of the thread seems to be missing OP's point.
~/.config/foo
vs.
~/.foo

OP is addressing software developers, not users

>>55764172
BSD is just a series of operating systems, it doesn't modify how programs are coded.