Fascinating to learn that the entire concept of dotfiles in Unix was an accidental result of a lazy implementation of hiding the . and .. files in the output of ls.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180827160401/plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20180827160401/plus.google.com/+...</a>
I found this neat little repo that gives some tips for decluttering $HOME: <a href="https://github.com/vizs/declutter-home" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vizs/declutter-home</a><p>I've employed some of them myself, managed to get the total number of files+dirs in $HOME down to around 18. Sadly I expect that number to rise as I install more programs.<p>Some dotfiles, like ~/.dbus cannot be changed because the path is hardcoded. Which makes me very sad