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    [–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 95 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

    [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 78 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    ah so like every fucking game and it's save files for some reason?

    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

    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.

    [–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    That's why i prefer to use Wine for games. Just change the symlinks in C:/users/ to somewhere sane, like .local/Games//save. Guess you could also use the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs while creating the prefix, but i haven't tested that yet.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 35 points 10 months ago

    ... or just imagine all of it being thrown on the Desktop (the bare user directory is rarely visited in Windows)

    [–] nymphlode@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago

    Hahahaha oh man I know exactly what you're talking about too 😭 hate when they do that