The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.
Better, it could be literally anywhere and there’s nothing you can do about it. Also symlinks practically look like regular folders and files to most apps.
That’s why i prefer to use Wine for games. Just change the symlinks in C:/users/<you> to somewhere sane, like .local/Games/<game>/save. Guess you could also use the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs while creating the prefix, but i haven’t tested that yet.
There’s no game related dirs in your My Documents dir? Most don’t even use My Games they just dump directly into My Documents. I guarantee most game devs don’t understand the difference between local and roaming either. They just put shit randomly wherever they want
The Windows equivilent would be instead of putting application data in the AppData folder, it throws it in Documents, My Games, or just in the home folder directly.
ah so like every fucking game and it’s save files for some reason?
Better, it could be literally anywhere and there’s nothing you can do about it. Also symlinks practically look like regular folders and files to most apps.
That’s why i prefer to use Wine for games. Just change the symlinks in C:/users/<you> to somewhere sane, like .local/Games/<game>/save. Guess you could also use the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs while creating the prefix, but i haven’t tested that yet.
I haven’t run into a game that does this 🤷♂️
There’s no game related dirs in your My Documents dir? Most don’t even use My Games they just dump directly into My Documents. I guarantee most game devs don’t understand the difference between local and roaming either. They just put shit randomly wherever they want
… or just imagine all of it being thrown on the Desktop (the bare user directory is rarely visited in Windows)
Hahahaha oh man I know exactly what you’re talking about too 😭 hate when they do that