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Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories. (dotfiles-matter.click)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Microsoft OWNS not just gaming companies, but one of the largest gaming hardware companies and many of the largest game developers.

You'd think by now we'd get a dedicated Saves folder to organize this shit after this long.

[–] Jakeroxs 11 points 10 months ago

My Documents > My Games is kinda the default, but then you have steam cloud syncing and tons of games that default to various Appdata folder seemingly at random.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

There is, been there since 7. Just hardly any game Devs use it, including Microsoft.

[–] jayandp 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

C:\Users\Username\Saved Games is a thing. Not a lot of games use it though.

There's also C:\Users\Username\Documents\My Games which seems more popular with some devs. Though some devs inexplicably use the base Documents folder, which is just obnoxious.

But yeah, a lot of devs still use AppData. I read a post from a dev once that explained the advantages and disadvantages to each Directory, though I can't remember the specifics, there is at least logic to why saves get stored in so many odd locations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

hough some devs inexplicably use the base Documents folder

Shoutout to Anno 1404 which creates no less than 4 directories in the base Documents directory each for slightly different releases for the game that they later rolled into a single release so your user data is strewn across all of them if you bought the most complete release of the game